For some people, condoms are not always a favourite thing to use when having sex. The irony is the point of using a condom to protect you from diseases and unwanted pregnancies. But there is a stigma that suggests condoms do not give sexual pleasure. But, in order for sexual life in the bedroom to improve, intimacy is most important.
What is intimacy?
“A misconception is that sexual intimacy is diminished by using a condom and distances you from your lover. However, intimacy doesn’t mean skin on skin sex. If sex is driven by a deep sense of physical and emotional closeness, it is intimate and using a condom doesn’t make you lose that closeness,” says Tania Goncalves-Da Conceicao from Durex.
Here are four things you need to know to experience protected sexual pleasure.
Intimacy is not just tender kisses
Intimacy requires lovers to be emotionally and physically present and it is not only about tender kisses and whispering sweet nothings to your lover. Intimacy in human relationships requires people to openly engage without fear that their vulnerability will be weakness. Intimacy requires you to understand every aspect of your lover
Condoms are not a barrier to intimacy
Intimacy allows you to be comfortable in your own sexuality and express your inner most feelings for the other person, which doesn’t mean that sex must be unprotected. Using a condom during sex creates strong emotional attachments and security. When you protect yourself you also protect your partner. Protection intensifies mutual commitment, mutual caring and emotional security.
Enhance your sexual pleasure and have fun
For those seeking the intimacy of skin on skin, you can find a condom that feels like you are not wearing one. Ultra-thin condoms are designed to provide greater sensitivity that can heighten your sexual pleasure. Wearing sex lingerie, massage oils, lubricants, erotic materials and vibrators are common with sexually active South Africa, which could mean that using these items during sex brings lovers closer and that is their view of intimacy.
Understand what works for both of you
Intimate sex based on physical attraction can be intense and explorative of your lover’s body, getting to know every inch of it. Intimate sex driven by emotion deals with the way you feel before, during and after sex. For lovers, it fulfils the desire to love and be loved with intense closeness, knowing and understanding each other’s sexual needs and wanting to experience the depth of their lover’s body.
