A short transcript excerpt from a Vanessa Marin video discussing the importance of non-sexual touch in long-term relationships. Marin urges partners—particularly men—to engage in touch and kissing for its own sake (without ulterior sexual motives), and highlights that many find it difficult to separate affectionate touch from sex.
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You and I have talked so much about the importance of non sexual touch. We've made a lot of content about how couples, especially in long term relationships, like we need to bring more non sexual touch back into a relationship. There needs to be touch and kissing. That's just for the sake of touch and kissing. That's not like there's no motive, we're not pushing it further. So like I know that you know rationally that we're supposed to have more non sexual touch, but again, it's just really interesting to listen to you talk about it in this way where it, it feels very difficult to separate touch from sex. And yeah, my guess is that a lot of men struggle with that as well. So the men out there who are in relationships with women, like we really want you to touch us for us, not to touch us for you or to touch us for this motive or this. Like we've gotta move things along. I think so many of us women are like, just be in the moment with me.