I read somewhere about "deep play", this notion of an activity people engage in without necessarily having an objective, without a goal or a time limit or even necessarily setting out to do it in the first place. something that absorbs you and in which you interact mentally and often also physically with your environment..."doing without doing". playing with your mashed potatoes, laying on the floor in the spot of sun coming through the window, next to your dog...when you and someone else who you see as a subject, not as an object, are experiencing each other physically with this kind of goalless playful (oddly personal for something so selfless) intimacy…that’s sex. looking into his eyes and seeing him looking into you and seeing each other seeing each other...and suddenly getting that sense of infinity that exists when you place two mirrors parallel to one another.
it's like...a lot of different things. it can be amazing and it can be lame, depending on who you're with, the context of the situation, and so on.
it's also sort of like playing and instrument. you get better with practice and as you learn what works for you and what works for who you're with.
moreover, I'm gay and I don't particularly enjoy either end of anal sex. sex is whatever kind of physical intimacy both you and your partner get into. there isn't any one penultimate sex act. "virginity" is a stupid concept and what constitutes "sex" vs "foreplay" is completely subjective.
in my opinion if you can laugh together during or after, it's all good. at some point someone is going to fart and someone else is going to whisper urgently into your ear at a restaurant "oh my god do I have cum in my beard?", and smiling and going with it and "no you got all of it out" is kind of half the point as far as I'm concerned.
it's not necessarily going to be more physically pleasurable than a mug of hot chocolate or burying your hand in a bag of lentils, and frankly you will probably always be better at giving yourself sexual pleasure than anyone else will be, but the aspect of emotional intimacy with another person is what makes it amazing.
my two cents anyway. passion is great but relationships are built on commitment, not physical ecstasy.
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