The Joy of Sex with One Woman (My Wife)
What we did: love. We did not spend our days gazing into each other’s eyes. We did that gazing when we made love or when one of us was in trouble, but most of the time our gazes met and entwined as they looked at a third thing. Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings t... See more
Donald Hall • The Third Thing by Donald Hall | Poetry Magazine
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Donald Hall on marriage and third things, and why “third things” are essential to marriage
what an extraordinary and rare achievement of biology, psychology and timing satisfying sex really is.
The School of Life • How To Think More About Sex (School of Life)
Now, for the first time, I understood what all the fuss was about. How something beautiful could strike your heart, move you, bring you down on your knees and then, somewhat perversely, you wanted to fuck that pure, beautiful thing. Sex was a way to have it, to not just look at it but to be with it.
Miranda July • All Fours: A Novel
Great sex, like happiness more generally, may be the precious and sublime exception.
The School of Life • How To Think More About Sex (School of Life)
That night we were late to dinner with Oliver because we’d been in bed. But we weren’t having sex when we lost track of time. I mean, we’d had sex, but we were lying there talking, making those first big careless, gleeful excavations when everything about someone is new and unknown, before you have to get out your little picks and brushes, work ted
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sex is a special part of marriage, but only a part.
Blu Greenberg • How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household
The determining factor in whether wives feel satisfied with the sex, romance, and passion in their marriage is, by 70 percent, the quality of the couple’s friendship. For men, the determining factor is, by 70 percent, the quality of the couple’s…
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