What is the difference between “sex” and “making love”?

Sapphire: What is the difference between “sex” and “making love”?

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Answer by j.r.
same thing just different terms.

Answer by Gun_fanatic
They’re pretty much the same IMO

Answer by Dharmanator
In common usage, sex often refers mainly or exclusively to the physical aspect of copulation, whereas making love tends to refer also to the wider emotional and spiritual aspects too.

Answer by kyle, inc.
Nothing.

Answer by arielsalom33
To me the difference is the word and the feelings behind love. Having sex with someone you dont love is just that, sex. Having sex with someone you are in love with is making love.

Answer by sweetiepie1617
maybe sex is a more rude term of the act. sounds more wrong then saying making love. making love sounds like the sex that they put on tv. the one time that you do it with the guy that you have waited your entire life for, the one who you will marry. involving so much love. saying your having sex sounds like a one night stand. technically though they are the same thing.

Answer by l2wh
Making love is when you are in love with that person and care about her.

Answer by neversleep02
thats easy. sex is pleasure of the body. its over when you roll over and go to sleep. making love is pleasure of the soul. when it starts, it never ends.

Answer by moe
$ 100 and the abilitiy to leave when your all done .

Answer by Damian L
making love is when you invision your lover in your mind and feel them with your heart.
sex is just doing it for pleaser without much love.

Answer by root chord
sex could just be plain animal lust ….people truly in love make love….

Answer by Stan P
Sex is the “act” itself. Making love is having sex but being passionate about it with your lover.

Answer by Johnny
Nomenclature.
It depends heavily upon the person; it can constitute no difference.
However, one can refer to just getting off while the other reflects a caring emotional bond.

Answer by grassy knoll
Sex is intercourse. Sex can be making love (this is sex with intimacy, love, commitment, etc.). But sex just for the physical act (hormones, kinky, etc.) is “f*cking”.

Please mind that making love does involve sex (—Idiom to have sex, to engage in sexual intercourse). Making love can cause pregnancy or cause the transfer of STDs beause it is sex.

Answer by Pandora in blue jeans
Sex to me is… for instance.. Meeting someone in a bar, having an instant sexual connection with them and just acting on it with out so much thought or nerves in it.

As for making love.~ to me it is taking your time. you don’t have to be” in love” but rather when there is nothing you would rather do then explore that person and take your time in doing so. being completley in that moment and pleasing eachother.

Sex- hungry scarf down your dinner …take a nap

Making love- taking your time enjoying that exspensive desert that you can’t consume often. LOL

Answer by *Candy*
To “make love” Its more gentle and a less derogatory term. They are the same thing, “making love” just sounds softer and more intimate… 😉

Answer by tbird
Having sex is a physical act, devoid of emotion….making love is sharing an emotional and physical desire between two parties. Usually rooted by an unselfish hunger to become “closer” to the other person.

Answer by Old Scout
“Making Love” is what Straight women call F (you know).

Answer by Avangelis
Making love is between two people that really love each other and they are not just focusing on the aspect of pleasure. They are having sex for love to show thier love. Now sex is just for pleasure. The two people may even love each other but the heat of the moment comes from a desire for lust. The difference is lust and love.

Answer by ziggy
Sex is for physical pleasure and making love is having sex with the expression of love involved. Both are great!!!