“Naked is being pure when we’ve all sinned. Naked is open to judgment and criticism. My 4am confession to you is what it’s like being naked. ‘This is who I am and I’m in love with you’ is being naked. No one gets this kind of naked anymore. We just take our clothes off.”— Jennifer Machin, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s me opening the legs of my soul and hoping you’ll make love, not fuck me over. It’s letting you see inside me: beyond the beauty, all the ugly. It’s ripping off bandages to unhealed wounds. It’s hoping you won’t hurt them more. It’s accepting that you may be the reason I bleed endlessly.”— Jennifer Machin, thoughtcatalog.com
“Naked is letting you see me like no one else has. All lights on. It’s you seeing why I’m the way I am. It’s me giving you the key to this door that no one has been able to open. It’s the door to all the insecurities, fears, and regrets.”— Jennifer Machin, thoughtcatalog.com
“Being completely naked is me being vulnerable, handing you all the power. Each sentence, each confession is an item I take off my soul. My soul has layers that no one has reached.”— Jennifer Machin, thoughtcatalog.com
“For an added touch, grab her hand and place it over your heart. Let her see how fast it’s beating, so she knows how excited she makes you.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Instantly turn up the kissing intimacy by closing the A-frame: a smooching stance in which you and your guy are in the middle of a smooch but your hips are a mile apart. By pressing your hips together, the degree of desire quickly rises.”— Christie Griffin, cosmopolitan.com
“Eye contact! It’s the most important part and can feel really intimidating, but if you can stomach to look your partner in the eye, it really makes all the difference!”— Casey Gueren, buzzfeed.com
“When a man touches a woman's body, he is not just touching her body. It goes MUCH DEEPER than that for a woman. He is touching parts of her soul-parts as diverse as how she feels about being a grandmother some day, to what is her favorite ice cream, to how much she loves her pet, and to her opinion…”— Jim Anderson, amazon.com
“It wasn’t logical, but the better you knew someone, the more blurry they became. The accumulation of facts made them disappear. It was more interesting wondering if someone did or didn’t like country music than knowing one way or the other.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“I didn't know his birthday, or if he had siblings, or where he'd grown up. I didn't know his favorite color, or if he'd played sports. I knew how he tasted and smelled, and I knew the length and girth of his penis, the curve of his ass, the pattern of freckles on his shoulder, the number of hairs su…”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“It occurred to me our nakedness had not aroused him. That we had reached the point where naked meant comfortable.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“This man had licked whipped cream from my nipples. I didn't need a shrink to tell me holding hands in public shouldn't have been an issue.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“Men love to be trusted. They love to hear us say yes to their desires and lay our pleasure in their hands. It feeds into their primal instinct to protect and naturally dominate. Women want to give, so handing over the ‘ I trust you with my a-card’ is something rare and novel. Trust is a gift to both…”— Belle Aria, thoughtcatalog.com
“You are walking to work. There is a dog drowning in the canal on the side of the street. Your boss told you if you are late one more time you're fired. Do you save the dog?”— Ally the Bruce, allysrandomage.blogspot.com