Host: What is the difference between sex and intimacy?

Chris Wright: Basically sex comes from -- really the focus is on getting each other turned on and sexually excited, it comes from your head. Lovemaking is really more about connecting to your heart, connecting to your body, unleashing, attuning to these more fundamental love energies, so that love directs the whole experiences. Here is what happens in the relationship lovemaking starts to become more like sex, men typically it does not have to be the man but it is typically the man they start to substitute sexual excitement for love, they start to equate the sexual excitement that is what is love, that s what intimacy.

I mean why not it is a sense that it feels so wonderful, it feels so great when I am sexually excited maybe that is love maybe that is intimacy and so for man not knowing how to tap into, how to attune to these more vulnerable love energies, how to open the couple up to these energies? His whole focus shift now to trying to get the woman sexually excited, to trying to get her turned on and that becomes the whole goal that determines everything that goes on sexually in the experience trying to get her turned on.

In fact that goal, lateral imitation has permeated the whole culture all of the media represents sex that way, the couple come into their apartment, they slam the door, he throws her up against the wash she tears open his shirt, there is just this hot passionate turned on sex is the image that we grow up, expecting that s what we are trying to do get the partner turned on, get her sexually excited that is what makes me a good lover and so everybody expects that most people do, that is what they as good sex is getting people to really turned together.

Even in religious communities and spiritual communities is that they maintain a sense that there is a difference between sex and lovemaking and that it is one that does require the bond of love to generate lovemaking and usually for of them you requires the bond of marriage. So, there really is a framework of emotional safety to really surrender your heart to ravel in these energies but I dare to say that from many of these religious couples when do they get married being brought up in this culture, they merely jump in have sex and they start focusing again about trying to turn each other on.

The woman is trying to be a turn on for the man please him and so the whole focus dissolves into again just having sex and then trying to call that love, that can be difficult in the culture particularly for woman they are those who have the lot of the feminine inside, they recognize it the feminine inside is really wired, sex is wired into the heart, into intimacy, into lovemaking and so it is really to have a hard time finding this thing where it is just about sex, just about getting turned on, just about sexual excitement, that s meaningful is that the whole thing, that s what it is all about? For a woman truly or a whole sexual motivation is about wanting to be with her man and open your heart surrender every part of yourself and welcome him into her depths of her being, take every bit of them inside of yourself and then responds releasing all that she is in complete surrender of love, her whole sexual motivation tis to make this spiritual connection and together and release these feminine divine energies.

That is her nature trying to get her turned on trying for her to be culturally conditioned, the cultures try to persuade woman that by been a turn on for a man is the highest form of sexual expression and that man deeply love. Well, that is confusing for a girl emerging into woman for a lady because she starts to question herself, she start to have a sense that well, he does desire me and he is saying this wonderful things and romancing me and that feels so wonderful to be wanted, to feel that he cares and so she starts think this must be love and it is nice to be held by and it is nice to be close to him and this must indeed be intimacy.

So, for woman there is a sense that this much be all there is, but deep inside in their soul they know better they know that there is something missing, that there is something richer that is available, that we are not tapping into buy simply focussing on turning each other on and getting sexually excited and that missing piece makes all the difference. So, when sex starts becoming focus goal oriented towards getting the person sexually excited, getting turned on, triggering these turn on's, that not merely takes you out of the possibility of something far more powerful, far richer, moving to even more ecstatic realms of lovemaking.