But it doesn't have to be the rip-off-my-lace-panties-with-your-teeth-and-ravage-me-on-high-thread-count-sheets kind of sex.
I remember being locked in Bolt's embrace while he ravaged me and for the first time in my life during sex I actually saw fireworks.
"I hate how you approach halfway, then linger on the sidelines all patient and kind, watching out for my needs," Jan tells Adam, adding, "Ravage me, give me no choice for Christ's sake".
If they have offered to carry me up the stairs, I am secretly hoping that in that moment our closeness will make them realize how amazingly sexy I am, and they will ravage me at the top of the stairs.
I dreamed of growing up to be the woman in the Scottish Widows advert and having the guy on the front of the Porage Oats box ply me with endless drams of whiskey before ravaging me in the bonny purple heather.
I gather my things and let out my gut, realizing that (like most of my recent love interests) after hearing that I was raped during my study abroad in Vietnam eight years ago, the last thing he wants to do is throw me on the hood of his Prius and ravage me.
("He just grinned and looked at me with those big eyes, like he wanted to ravage and murder me at the same time," Dickinson wrote).
Returning from earthquake ravaged Nepal reminded me the fragility of life and how truly grateful I am.
And of course, there are so many other variables: low expectations, random misogyny, off-days, comedy paralysis, and slow reactions in the face of hormonal ravages (all right, that's just me then).
While I was working as a researcher in Silicon Valley, I saw the ravages of chronic stress all around me.
