Intimacy is the principle source of the sugars with which life is sweetened. It is absolutely vital to the essential insanities. Without it humour becomes inoffensive and therefore pap, eroticism becomes inpersonal and therefore mechanical, poetry becomes exoteric and therefore prose, behaviour becomes predictable and therefore easy to control.
Tom Robbins
totally agree, sex conjures up a physical act, however when you mix care, love, emotion, feeling it becomes a magical thing