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

[spoochie]

[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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[spoochie]

Thank you! :)

[Being_a_good_Indian]

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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.

[spoochie]

Thank you for this point of view ;) your words are pretty good and understandable, don't worry.

[nightdrot]

Thank you. Very kind.

[9teen]

Sex is raw, pure lust.

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

[Kitten967]

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

[false]

love doesn't have to be slow... you can still fuck like rabbits out of love

[Kitten967]

Yes, but I wasn't saying you can't fuck like rabbits. I was just saying what I think the difference between fucking and making love is. You can do both them things in a relationship but they aren't both the same things.

[-Beonkia]

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

[laurieluvsit]

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

[LleonardokinG]

SEX is the EFFECT and Making love is the ACTION

[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.

[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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[Zumbido]

The way I view it, sex is an action that can be based in many different emotions. It could be just a base desire or it could be an expression of love or both or maybe neither. Love making, on the other hand, isn’t just a set action and doesn’t always and doesn’t have to involve sex. To me, the term “making love” should reflect any action taken, any word spoken, that conveys a deep sense of romantic love to another that touches them deep within their heart and lets them experience that same love for the other person and for themselves. Not everyone is comfortable enough with their own body for sex, and some people (like myself) place very little emotional attachment on sex. For people like me, the truest expression of my love would never be just sex, and usually doesn’t involve it at all.

[Zumbido]

For me, making love would entail writing a letter to my lover detailing the strength and scope and nature and power of my love for them and leaving it for them to read when I’m not there. That makes me feel so much more than sex ever has. So I think it’s like a ven diagram.

[spoochie]

Thank you for your opinion :)

[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

[PrincessPie]

Sex is purely physical.
Making love is physical and emotional

[NJ_Casanova]

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

[NJ_Casanova]

Also Most Sex... is done doggystyle, reverse cowgirl as there is no Eye to eye contract... least amount of emotional involvement. Most Love making is missionary as you are able to kiss/alot of eye contract.

[Sauron2099]

One is lust and the other one is love.

[theharlequin]

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

[r4ngeF]

No difference to me.

[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.

[H2OHydrox]

A psychological construct which is ultimately down to brain chemistry.

[dave155]

Passion

[Cuintan]

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

[Karnak09]

Passion, the will to give pleasure to your partner

[Political_dude]

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

[Being_a_good_Indian]

Thanks for kind mention.

[Sw00per5633]

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

[RatPack1987]

One with condom and one with out.

[jessture]

Making love is just romaticising sex.

[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.