I am curious as to how different people define sex and making love, either together or separately.

Also

Do you think there is a need for physical touch in order to make love?

<small>[ September 02, 2003, 01:43 PM: Message edited by: *Hypatia ]</small>

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by *Hypatia:
<strong>I am curious as to how different people define sex and making love, either together or separately.?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I went to www.dictionary.com... They had 2 diffinitions for "making love"

1. To engage in amorous caressing.
2. To engage in sexual intercourse.

My interpretations are.
Sex is just sex for each if they participate in sex acts for simply the physical pleasure of sexual stimulation. It is possible for one to express love but for the other to just experience physical pleasure with no emotion for the other.

Making Love is a physical sexual expression of the love one feels for another and can be touching or intercourse by definition.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"><strong>Do you think there is a need for physical touch in order to make love?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I believe it would have to be physical. Non-physical would be expressing felt emotions of love or erotically stirring the imagination of a loved one for their pleasure. But it isn't Love Making.

Also I believe love making is giving physical pleasure to another to express love. Whereas sex is done for your own pleasure.

Interesting topic!

I think I have to agree with Monty. Making love is when you want to give someone else pleasure and feel the emotional as well as physical bond. Sex is more for your own gratification. Less emotional involvment.

Sex is just fun...nothing else... no feelings of attachment, connnectedness, etc. there can be love there -- but the intercourse never reaches a deep emotional state, it never moves to a "higher level". It can be fulfilling but only on the physical level -- all very base.

In sex it can be important for you to give enjoyment to another. It's the emotions that are lacking (sort of like the difference of a "house" vs a "home")

Making Love is sex AND all the emotions, the connectedness, the attachments, the trust ... it is everything wonderful that just sex is not x 100. It is not just just the physical enjoyment and the setting of the physical "on fire" but it is the setting of the emotional self "on fire" too. It is fulfilling on many other levels beside the physical.

Since d-day I have made love to my husband 2 maybe 3 times ... I have had sex with him over 200 times.

I do love my husband very much but I do not feel connected and I do not trust him .. and the great majority of SF I had with him -- that made it different than with anyone else (including H#1) is not there.

It is fun and he can "pluck my strings" like no one else ever has ... but I hit a glass ceiling and can go no higher, and I miss it greatly.

way2

<small>[ September 04, 2003, 04:24 PM: Message edited by: way2 ]</small>