The real test of love is when a person—including you—can know your weaknesses, your stupidities and your smallnesses, and still love you.

Bottoms are alchemists who magically transform pain into sex.

Do remember: your sexiness is about how you feel, not how you look.

Sex is nice and pleasure is good for you.

Increasing your repertoire has the advantage that you don't have to give up enjoying what you already like: it is always easier to add new behaviors than to deny your deepest desires.

One remedy for the fear of not being loved is to remember how good it feels to love someone. If you're feeling unloved and you want to feel better, go love someone, and see what happens.

Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability Nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff.