Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go

Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.

Yes, sex is troublesome and beautiful. And only when we drop our expectations, and know that we'll have moments of great sex and moments when our sexuality confounds, pains, or infuriates us, will we be liberated to enjoy it in a way that's true to ourselves.

I felt ashamed."

"But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?"

"No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal."

"But how could you help that?"

"Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?

To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.