Placing fences around sex to separate it from the rest of your normal life makes it more intense, not safer. I've gotten to practice that rush so many times through work. Not always or even often. But for years, I've practiced parsing out what is real and enduring from what's artificially heightened.

Fucking outside a relationship has no plausible conclusion other than an end. Conventional romantic relationships end too but they usually flourish inside the hope that they won't, that something permanent is being built.

— Prostitute Laundry by Charlotte Shane (Page 118)