Havelock Ellis Quotes

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

I just want you inside, baby, we don't need to talk about promises.

Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.

Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

When a new generation watches the films, people might mention that it has improved their lovemaking. I guess it's because it isn't threatening. It was very sweet and delicate.

The physicality of a real relationship - one that encompasses mind, body and soul - ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.

I was making love to a man, a man I hardly even know. He was kissing the face off me and I was kissing the face off him. And I found it highly satisfactory.

The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

She clenched her fist in his T-shirt, put her other arm around those too-broad, too-real shoulders. When he tried to pull away, she held on tight. Kami felt the surrender in his mind a moment before he laid his face in the curve of her neck. The whole world was so real it hurt. Kami whispered into Jared's hair, "I'm always on your side.

In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his immediacy now. As we settle in, he pulls my head down to use his arm as a pillow; the other rests protectively over me even when he goes to sleep. No one has held me like this in such a long time. Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe.

He pressed a kiss to my ear. “Do you feel stretched? Can you tell I’ve been inside you?” I nodded, feeling my knees go a little weak from the tone in his voice. “Good. I like knowing you can feel where I’ve been.

It's all good when we making love, all I ask is don't take our love for granted, it's granted.

I've finally been able to trust and have intimacy with somebody, which I've never been able to do. Like a lot of guys, I just have a hard time getting that connected. I can actually sleep with her in my arms - spoons position, right? Women smile, they love the spoons. Men would rather fork.

Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described.

I don't know that sex always has to have feelings, but I think that friendship always does.

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

My softer side? I mean, I like to snuggle.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

I've always loved kissing. We all do, don't we?

Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.