To Improve Intimacy in Your Relationship, Get Off the Sexual Staircase
"Sexual Staircase" describes the kind of routine, goal-oriented sex that people engage in when they're having sex with their partner What is the Sexual Staircase? The Sexual Staircase, which is a metaphor, is how most people think sex is "supposed to be." The Sexual Staircase is a list of hierarchical steps that usually start at the bottom of the staircase with foreplay and ends with sexual intercourse and orgasm. Depending upon the couple, the sexual acts between foreplay and intercourse can include kissing, caressing, genital touch, oral sex, and so on. For many people in long term relationships these steps don't deviate. They engage in the same steps in the same way most or all of the time. After a while, people in long term relationships often skip some of the steps as they prioritize a goal-oriented approach that always ends with penetrative sex and strives for orgasm. Having sex the same way all the time becomes boring after a while. What'...