The phrase "height of pleasure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an intense or peak experience of enjoyment or satisfaction.
Example: "The concert was the height of pleasure, leaving everyone in awe of the performance."
Alternatives: "peak of enjoyment" or "pinnacle of delight."
Why is it that for the smallest child, the height of pleasure lies in seeing the rules of the real world playfully subverted — the toy elephant made to fly, the playground tree made to talk — but as we grow older we find such pleasure in seeing rule-bound reality re-enacted onstage, in a book or in a dice baseball game?
"Happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence". We all know there's pleasure to be found in knocking off or lying about, but the height of pleasure comes through engagement.
From what I have heard in my long life from women of my acquaintance who dared to offer an opinion, and from what I have read about in books, that first time experience is rarely the height of pleasure.
Such heights of pleasure are unsustainable, of course, and the early years of their marriage are a steady drone of merely subsisting.
We don't experience the same heights of pleasure as these porn stars, and we internalize this failure.
With several thousand sexual notches on my belt and the new Mapplethorpe calendar on my desk, I saw no reason to think we wouldn't continue climbing to even greater heights of pleasure; it felt like society was on a fast track to complete sexual liberation.
There is real worth and life in his hopes and fears, his enthusiasms (he can make margarine on toast, bad beer and old country and western tapes sound like the height of sensual pleasure) and his sadness and tragedy.
The German astrophysicist (Otto Von Wernherr) who is studying them notes that they are not only as dependent on drugs as Margaret's crowd but also appear to derive energy from humans at the height of sexual pleasure.
10.44am BST Uvver fings vat are magnificent every time: Facebook Twitter Pinterest 10.37am BST Uvver fings vat are magnificent every time: 10.28am BST Preamble At the height of any pleasure begs a question: why don't I feel, think, and do this all the time?
And what do we mean by "happy": is it the heights of aesthetic pleasure, a response to beauty, contentment, a clean house, or is it found in modern terminology like sustainability, innovation, or simple neighbourliness?
"We've been living together, I'm afraid, vicar". "Splendid, then maybe you have experienced something of the God-given heights of sexual pleasure and touched on the depths of human love". My reply to the bride-to-be and her partner at a marriage preparation class was not intended to be frivolous.
