Sexual Interaction

See Also: INSULTS

1. Attacked her with a loose and greedy mouth, like a man sucking at a torn fruit —Miles Gibson
2. Even when they made love … it was perfunctory, as if he were listening for something else, a phone call, a footfall. He was like a man scratching himself. She was like his hand —Margaret Atwood
3. (She could only remember the times that he had lain with her,) fleeing into her body as if it were a refuge from his daily wage of fear and frustration —Davis Grubb
4. Gave her whole body to me, like something without a bone —Winston Graham
5. Gobbled her like a ripe peach —Peter De Vries
6. He aroused her so excrutiatingly that she wanted to lie down right now for him in the middle of the muddy road and let him plough through her like a car —Julia O’Faolain
7. He fell into her with the ease and velocity of a stone dropping into the sea —MacDonald Harris
8. He fell on me like a wave. But like a wave he washed away, leaving no sign he’d been there —Louise Erdrich
9. He had never before made love like this … as if he had found a twin whose body had been cast in the matching mold of his own —Amos Oz
10. He pulled up my clothes like a man unwrapping a parcel —Graham Swift
11. Her touch moving over my body like pebbles in a stream —Arthur A. Cohen
12. He slips into her like a thief entering a doorway —Hilma Wolitzer
13. He was like something washed ashore on her —Flannery O’Connor

    This observation is prompted by an unsuccessful sexual encounter.

14. His love making felt like having a tooth stopped by a singularly incompetent dentist —Vicki Baum
15. It [sexual intercourse] was as if we’d been fused together, melting into each other like amoebae but violently, like cars crashing head on —John Braine
16. The lovemaking wasn’t exactly by the numbers, but she did order everything on the menu, like a teenage kid trying to impress his date —Jonathan Valin
17. Made love like monkeys —Charles Johnson
18. Making love with Charlie was like being taken into a big warm machine —Sue Grafton
19. (Harry) maneuvered her around like a load of wet wash —R. Wright Campbell
20. Our body warmth flowed back and forth, coursing between us like some underground hot spring —Harvey Swados
21. Our two bodies met like a thunderclap —Carolyn Kizer
22. Places her gently upon the bed like a newly pressed suit —Roger McGough
23. She gave herself up to me like a condemned criminal —John Hagge
24. She snuggled into him like a kitten at the breast of its mother —Rita Mae Brown
25. She stiffened on penetration and clung to him, relaxing as if unlocked with his blunt key —Paul Theroux
26. Spills him off her body like a pile of sand —John Updike

    See Also: REJECTION

27. Their touch together was like a miniature jolt of electricity —Paul Horgan
28. Undressed deliberately, slowly, as if she were unwrapping a gift —Graham Swift
29. We crashed against one another like waves on a breakwater —Sue Grafton
30. We ended up in bed together, sort of, spastic and looped, doomed for failure, like two senile inventors in an upstairs room, lonely as spoons —Lorrie Moore
31. We flowed together again like a stream that for an instant an island had separated —Truman Capote
32. We half walked half stumbled towards the bed, like uncertain dancers learning a new step —Peter De Vries