Is Romance Important to You or Is it All About the sex?

Romance without sex is impossible 🤷🏻‍♂️

Unless you physically can’t
Well, that's another discussion .. what is "sex"? My mind goes immediately to an interview with Christopher Reeve and his wife Dana (and what a tragedy there, huh? He dies in 2004, she dies 2 years later). Anyway, the interviewer was being nosy about their sex life with him a quadriplegic. Dana answered as deftly as she could hinting at "other ways" to achieve the desired result or something like that which I took as cunnilingus. But if you feel romantically toward someone, you want to touch them, kiss them ... and other stuff if you can.
 
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I find it impossible to be fully aroused or engaged with the person if I do not feel a romantic connection. Then, again, I haven't had a lot of experience with intercourse with many different women
 
I like it both ways, I enjoy a beautiful romantic sexual relationship with my husband. But I am also able to enjoy raw no strings or emotional attachment sex with a stranger on the side too. And find it easy to separate the two.
 
I would say romance is not important to me. I can very well separate emotion from sex, and often prefer it that way. I would almost say I don't like romance, but that isn't really quite the truth. I don't like the cliché romantic gestures, then being in that awkward position of feigning enjoyment or honesty which is rude. Too intimate too romantic gestures too early freak me out, and by too I mean I develop intimacy at a turtle pace. I've been having sex with you for a significant amount of time before it is to possibly be considered acceptable, unless done in a humorous way, that takes the edge off. It is just easier to say I don't like romance and let it be. Now sex, I am almost always about the sex.
 
Did someone say chicken wings??? Well the romance is part of the "chase" and usually makes the sex a lot more interesting for sure. But then there is SEX, enough said :)
 
They’re both important to me but they feel like two sources of pleasure which often intertwine.

Sex at its root feels very body present. I’m present in how I feel physically and what I’m doing physically.

Romance or rather I’d say intimacy happens in the emotional and intellectual space. So I feel valued, loved, seen, respected etc.

Sometimes if I’m not feeling fulfilled in one zone I might try to compensate through the other which is fleeting. But when both zones feel full there is a depth of peace and pleasure that is amazing.

So sometimes I’d be totally content to just have and be present in sex and that would be amazing. Sometimes I want to talk and be seen and loved.

So it depends.
 
Don't have to be 'in love' but definitely have to have some emotional connection to make sex so so wonderful. I believe its called being Demisexual and I have only recently discovered this explains me.
Can't just do the physical deed and could never have sex with a random stranger.
Thank you Shadylady...;)
 
I don't think of myself as any sort of romantic when it comes to lovers. That doesn't mean that I don't have warm feelings or that I don't genuinely like someone. That is kind of a prerequisite. I just don't see people as long-term partners who mate exclusively for life. That said, I also have zero interest in sex with strangers. Then again, even though I don't desire it, I am sure that I am capable of doing so if for some weird reason I needed to do so.
 
I think romance enhances sex! Caring for the person makes the connection, having that open communication and everything that comes along with an intimate relationship, all the more fulfilling.

In my opinion, it is also not a requirement to make sex good! I can disconnect my mind and body and just feel the sensation of enjoying someone’s body or them enjoying mine. 😋
 
Sorry but I'm a romantic. Something as intimate as making love to another person, is earning trust and feelings towards each other. Probably why I never understood 3 ways with someone you really care about. Without romance it is just sex.
 
I think romance enhances sex! Caring for the person makes the connection, having that open communication and everything that comes along with an intimate relationship, all the more fulfilling.

In my opinion, it is also not a requirement to make sex good! I can disconnect my mind and body and just feel the sensation of enjoying someone’s body or them enjoying mine. 😋
I'm with you 90% The first paragraph is a no brainer. I certainly have had some nice sex becasue we both needed it, but it feels a bit empty on any continuing basis unless I make a connection.
 
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