“See, this is the part, on my scale of normal, where we tell each other how amazing we were. You especially tell me.”
“Because a man’s ego is often correlated with his sexual prowess.”
“That’s one way of putting it. Things like you saw God or the earth moved are clichés for a reason.”
“The earth is in constant motion, so it’s not a good compliment. A better one would be the earth stopped moving, even though that would be
impossible, and a disaster if it were possible.”
“I’ll still take it as a compliment.”
The Witness
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Having sex increases spirituality and 'makes people more likely to believe in God'
Middle-aged men report greater levels of spirituality after exposure to the hormone oxytocin
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She heard music. Angels singing? she thought, dizzy.
It seemed odd for angels to sing after table sex.
She managed to swallow on a throat wildly dry.
“Music,” she murmured.
“My phone. In my pants. Don’t care.”
“Oh. Not angels.”
“No. Def Leppard.”
The Search