“ Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy.(...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability. ”
If you believe that you can use sex to shore up your fragile self-esteem by stealing someone else's, we feel sorry for you, because this will never work to build a solid sense of self worth, and you will have to go on stealing more and more and never getting fulfilled.
~ Dossie Easton
One of the most valuable things we can learn from open sexual lifestyles is that our programming is changeable.