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Discover LudwigThe phrase "affectionate sex" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a type of sexual activity that is characterized by tenderness and emotional connection between partners.
Example: "Their relationship was built on trust and intimacy, leading to a fulfilling experience of affectionate sex."
Alternatives: "loving intimacy" or "tender sexual activity".
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The evidence isn't entirely there yet, but Wolf's argument that heavy porn use seems to follow an addictive pattern, desensitising users to images of violence and causing them to lose interest in affectionate sex with a partner whose name they know, seems increasingly plausible.
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The exploitation cinema of the past (recently chronicled in the affectionate documentary "Mau-Mau Sex Sex") survives in the art cinema of the present.
They're also over 98% genetically similar to humans, so their very existence demonstrates how important good sex, affectionate touch, empathy, reciprocity and sharing pleasure is to our own well-being.
That or "Is Childbirth Necessary?" The Washington Post even ran a review in the form of an affectionate imitation of "Is Sex Necessary?," right down to the idiotic sexologists.
He always kisses me upon seeing me or leaving but he's never been particularly affectionate, even when the sex was good.
"I am Dylan, holder of soccer participation trophy, master of the Italian accent, Googler of 'What is sex?'" An affectionate, antagonistic friendship develops around shared insecurities and interests: "Golan, together we're going to fulfill my school counselor's prophecy and unleash a bloody reign of terror on this town".
Sadly, Bucharest is not a great place to be seen being affectionate to your same-sex lover.
When Roger Sterling takes Joan Holloway, the voluptuous redheaded secretary (played by Christina Hendricks in a turn that pays an affectionate homage to Helen Gurley Brown's "Sex and the Single Girl") to a hotel room for a midday tryst, he says of the room-service lunch: "Look, we've got oysters Rockefeller, beef Wellington, napoleons.
The soldier who receives a warmly affectionate letter from a same-sex correspondent is in jeopardy of being booted out of the service.
Though the letters are deeply affectionate and Dietrich and Hemingway were both sex symbols for their generation -- he the literary lion, she the silver-screen siren -- their descendants maintain the relationship was entirely platonic.
The legacy of his beloved father's early death, Price notes, was "a prevailing sense of tenderness that prevented any later interest in sex that had no substantial affectionate component.
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