I had a moment where I imagined what it would be like to give up sex..to have that kind of relationship where you don’t touch eachother…and it…isn’t natural. You’re not just denying the act of sex, you’re denying intimacy, passion … How can you choose to give up that feeling you get when your skin makes contact with someone else’s and a charge runs through your whole body like every nerve inside you just caught fire..? I mean the way you described it .. hands grabbing, smacking .. that’s about passion! Fire! And you’re not trying to catch your breath, you’re trying to inhale someone else’s. And it’s complicated. It’s messy. And I say every minute of pleasure is worth the pain it might bring later, because nothing on this earth could make two people feel that good.
Dr. Sean McNamara (NipTuck)