“Making Love consists of the positive things you say and do from within your heart as a routine in effort to please not yourself, but your partner without the goal of self-gratification.”— Darryl Y. Barron, amazon.com
“Making love, she'd always believed, was more than simply a pleasurable act between two people. It encompassed all that a couple was supposed to share: trust & commitment, hopes & dreams, a promise to make it through whatever the future might bring. The greater the love; the greater the tragedy when…”— Nicholas Sparks, goodreads.com
“Making love is about more than just right now. Making love is a physical manifestation of how you feel about your partner; namely how much you love them. It’s not as much about getting a great orgasm as it is connecting on a deeper level, becoming one person and expressing your feelings in a sexual…”— Anonymous, welovedates.com
“People always say that the sex dies once you tie the knot, but that doesn’t have to be the case. After ten years, there’s no one else’s body you know as well as your lover’s, and you feel comfortable communicating what you want and need out of lovemaking. We’re doing it just as often as we did back…”— Anonymous Guy, thoughtcatalog.com
“Intimacy isn’t just good for you—it’s good for your relationship, too. During sex, you’re literally connected to your significant other, which leads you to feel more attached to them on a biological level. After a morning romp, you get to go your separate ways knowing that your bond has been strengt…”— Mélanie Berliet, thoughtcatalog.com
“Billions of people have had sex. I don't know how many have actually made love.”— Sheila Wray Gregoire, amazon.com
“As you get better at communicating, as you trust more, as you become more vulnerable, sex will improve.”— Jennifer Smith, unveiledwife.com
“The weird stuff that happens during sex is less embarrassing when you’re with someone you love. You don’t have to worry that your cellulite is showing or your stomach is making a strange noise because you know that they love you and aren’t here just to get their rocks off. Plus, your ass is fabulous…”— Jillian Paulson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Penn State sociologists who interviewed women in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York found that when they're in a committed relationship, women are more keen to try something new—including in the bedroom. It also makes the whole experience of getting it on overall more satisfying for women, and c…”— Lindsay Tigar, cnn.com
“Sex is communication. Sex with someone you aren't in love with, then, feels like a promise you mutter under your breath, not sure if you can keep it. It bugs you. You're in bed together, but you're not in the room together, not exactly. You're strangers to each other, even as you're sharing the kitc…”— Sam Leith, glamourmagazine.co.uk
“There's raw uninhibited sex just for sex's sake that's tons of fun. Then there's completely head-over-heals in love sex that is like looking through a person's soul. It's like comparing Tim Burton's Batman to Christopher Nolan's. Two equally exciting, but very different, animals. Both are great. Jus…”— Anonymous, quora.com
“When it comes to better sex, all five senses and your brain can play a big role -- but there is something even more important -- your heart, according to a recent survey from Durex and YourTango. The survey of more than 1,000 people from May 20 to June 17, 2013 shatters common misconceptions that se…”— Your Tango, yourtango.com
“Trying new things is fun, not freakish – Role playing, sex toys and new positions can be introduced into the bedroom in a way that feels safer, and ultimately more enjoyable, when you really know (and love) your partner. Casually showing up to your booty call’s house in a naughty nurse costume might…”— The Editors at Cosmopolitan, cosmopolitan.com.au
“When a relationship matures, sex matures. You now have the advantage of knowing each other well. Fear of rejection is replaced with trust and security. This allows you to move into a stage of experimentation and mutual growth. You can take the time to fine-tune your skills as a lover.”— HealthyPlace Staff, healthyplace.com
“When you feel comfortable enough to ask a partner to grab some tampons for you while making a grocery run, you're likely capable of letting them know it makes you see major orgasm-sparkles when they do that thing, right there. In the same vein, they should indulge in the same kind of honesty. And gu…”— Beca Grimm, bustle.com
“As distinct from mere sex, love-making dissolves the chasm between ‘you’ and ‘me.’ The resolution, however, is not ‘us’ because ‘we’ can still be divided. Instead, in love-making there is the mutual consciousness of unbounded unity without partition...In making love, your loins are mine, and mine yo…”— Elliot D. Cohen Ph.D., psychologytoday.com
“An emotional connection sparks more fire. Making love trumps fucking every time because of how emotionally charged it is. Being able to stare deeply into his eyes while he enters you connects you in a way that’s inexplicable and unlike anything else.”— Angelica Bottaro, thebolde.com
“The last time you touch her will feel remarkably like the first. She will be drunk and smiling and full of love for you when she steps out of her dress. You will forget she is leaving because you can still hold her face in your hands. You will forget she is leaving because her lips are soft and wet…”— Joaquin Fernandez, thoughtcatalog.com
“She apologized with you in her mouth, hot and hungry and holding back tears.”— Joaquin Fernandez, thoughtcatalog.com
“You made love like a romance novel, begging her with your body not to go.”— Joaquin Fernandez, thoughtcatalog.com