Intimacy

pleasure is : the communication between your body and the world.

They said choice would taste like freedom, but not that it’s an addictive sweetness. One that rots the stomach, until even our gut-instincts lose their sense of direction. We do not just suffer from an abundance of options, we suffer from a lack of commitment.

It was like someone handed me a flashlight and aimed it toward the edges of my vision, illuminating a world I’d always suspected was there. Suddenly, the woman walking briskly through the parking garage wasn’t just late, she was carrying something. The barista handing over my coffee wasn’t just tired, he was in the middle of something big, or hard,... See more

Knowing I’ll never fully know anyone is what makes it feel like such a gift when someone lets me in, even a little. When they tell me the thing they didn’t post about. When they trust me with the part that doesn’t make a good story. When they let me see the mess behind the metaphor.

A fake orgasm happens because it needs to happen, because we don’t know what to say, because we don’t know how to get across what we want.

Sensuality, Baldwin wrote, requires presence. When you distrust your own desires, when your body is unfamiliar to you, how can you ever hope to be present with, to connect with someone else?