If you were to explain the act of human intercourse to someone to whom the idea was completely foreign, it might sound particularly freakish. With appendages engorging, the body producing strange fluids, and more, the entire notion of sexual relations might seem revolting, or even violent. Living in a point in history where much of the first world is sexually liberated, where conventional relationships are eroding and making way for complex ways of meeting sexual and emotional needs, there is certain bemusement at looking at how men and women tiptoed around sex and their bodies only one or two generations ago.

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