How would you describe the difference between "sex" and "making love" ?

[Being_a_good_Indian]

Good relationships don’t just happen over night. They require mutual love, trust and respect. Creating a strong foundation as friends, who share everything, will enhance sexual pleasures at a later time in your union. The act of allowing and acceptance is a beautiful bond in human sexuality. Feeling safe is foreplay. When you know your partner has your back and your best intentions you feel happy.

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Making love is the ultimate form of expression in a relationship. There are ways to make love without having sexual intercourse while sharing emotional intimacy. Stimulating the mind can be just as much of an aphrodisiac as the act of sex itself. In relationships we require connections on many levels.

Being silly and laughing with each other is precious. Sharing these parts of yourself enhances your emotional connection. Exercising together can be sexy. You are interacting in a physical level that also mimics the actions of sex. Your union will be stronger because you are sharing what you love.

Cuddling, kissing, snuggling and hugging are all forms of physical connections that are needed in relationships. There are also ways of mentally stimulating your partner with a love letter, a handmade note, or just a post-it note on a mirror. Sending a sweet playful text during the day creates a feeling of sentimental devotion.

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[nightdrot]

Speaking strictly from the guy's perspective:

Sex is just the act. It is raw and animalistic and - honestly - fun. My girlfriend and I enjoy it and it has its benefits. For me, I get to feel like a dominating male and my urges and needs get priority. It is all about my instincts and my need to impregnate her. I am like an animal marking my territory.

However, when my girlfriend and I make love, it is something on a whole different plane. I am sharing something intimate and special with her. Her satisfaction is important to me and, in fact, means more to me. To hear the words "I love you" suddenly becomes the greatest thing.

Sorry, this gets to be pure mush, but it is hard to find the words. I want to be inside her. I want to share my body with her and hold her and love her. I can't imagine my life without her in that moment. The sex is giving everything I have to her.

When it is sex, I am dominating her. I am an animal breeding in a field somewhere. When it is making love, I need her and am utterly lost without her.

Best my words can do. In practice, the line gets blurry. However, in my brain, it is the brightest distinction.

[Kitten967]

Sex/fucking is more animalistic/primal and rough. Making love is slow and sensual

[9teen]

Sex is raw, pure lust.

Making love is (rough) passionate, pure out of love.

[-Beonkia]

Sex is just for the couple and making love is trying to conceive

[Heclingybad]

Hah ha ha... where do I begin, I understand why people want to put labels on the joys making love/having sex due to society’ Needs of separating emotional values from making love/having sex. Guys always fuck over girls and blame them for getting too emotionally involved then girls that has suffered similar faiths reinforces the emotionless guys dropped off words of getting away with using the girl by saying “it was just sex” just sex? You fucking kidding me. All that work you put in showing this woman how much I care, want, and sexually desire her, then sharing such a mind blowing, soul healing, emotional roller coaster of feelings with this girl in twined and wrapped up with each other for some just 5 minutes others like me we go for hours of so much wonderfully intimate and sensual bath of feelings that flows all over both your bodys. They say it’s just sex, Smh. Anyway a couple passionately making with the girl bend over in front of her man could be could be said has no emotion connection while a friends with benefits couple laying face to face slowly and deeply grinding into each other would say to have some kind of deep emotional connection,

[Zumbido]

I think it’s like a ven diagram

I think that we often believe that one is a subset of the other, with sex being an umbrella term that includes love making, but I believe this to be an unfair and incomplete view of the situation.

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[GreedyGiver651]

Spelling. Joking aside I rarely use either of those terms. I'm usually more explicit. To me I feel like "making love" should not be a sex thing, it should be about the relationship without the intimate part. Sex is an expression of love, making it is much more personal and emotional

[random56286]

Sex is a medical term for the copulation between a man and a woman. Making love is is a physical manifestation of the love that I feel for the woman who loves me and a celebration of the bond between us.

[TadCurious]

Just "having sex"/fucking is pretty much just a physical, external act. "Making love" joins the internal feelings of love for the other person to the physical act of sex, so that the physical becomes a manifestation of the internal feeling.

[RohitLakra]

Sex that people have as hookups is usually just sex but when a couple have sex then it holds some meaning to the sex and it is less rough. I don't really know much about it. In have just heard it from my friends.

[NJ_Casanova]

Making love... needs some emotional connection... I think MOST people... even married couples... mainly have sex.

[theharlequin]

Sex is penetrating her body.
Making love is penetrating her soul.

[Sw00per5633]

Sex is when you're trying to pleasure yourself. Lovemaking is trying to pleasure your partner.

[PrincessPie]

Sex is purely physical.
Making love is physical and emotional

[Nickoli42]

All love making is sex, but not all sex is making love. Making love is more about who you're doing it with, like a SO while sex by itself includes just sex for fun.

[StableMind]

Sex has no emotion you're just doing it for whatever reason you have making love you can feel that your heart and soul Go into it while you're in the moment there's nothing better than making love

[H2OHydrox]

A psychological construct which is ultimately down to brain chemistry.

[Cuintan]

I wouldn't. Language is not always amenable to clear cut distinctions.

[Political_dude]

My friend @Being_a_good_Indian wrote about it. I'm unable to find it because his profile is Private

[pawan1996]

Sex is when u doing without any feelings
Making love means doing with a lot of interest n care of ur partner
I don't know much Coz never experienced

[TotallyAlmost]

Sex is purely about lust, and eroticism, and fantasy and desire. Love involves passion.

[askawaymam]

Sex is sex you can have sex with anyone making love is more passionate

[Nice222]

Having sex is more mechanical. Making love is more emotional.

[rajpillai9819272469]

In love there is no sex...
And in sex there is no love..

[laurieluvsit]

I wouldn't, but there may be... lol

[Sauron2099]

One is lust and the other one is love.

[LleonardokinG]

SEX is the EFFECT and Making love is the ACTION

[Karnak09]

Passion, the will to give pleasure to your partner

[jessture]

Making love is just romaticising sex.

[RatPack1987]

One with condom and one with out.

[outside_Toronto]

The difference is the spelling

[Cannuk22]

Barry White and Metallica.

[r4ngeF]

No difference to me.

[dave155]

Passion

[DanOh2018]

Marketing