People who have magnificent sex don’t just show up and put their bodies in the bed—e.g., good sex. They deliberately cultivate a context that’s “just safe enough” to dare the leaps of faith they take into the wild places in their souls. That’s magnificent sex. And out-of-the-blue desire has almost nothing to do with it. When people who have magnificent sex want sex, they don’t just want the sex we see performed in the mainstream media or porn. They want to know themselves and their partners more fully and they want to be seen and known more fully felt more deeply held more closely. This is what I call “magnificent desire
(Nagoski, E. (2015). Come as you are: The surprising new science that will transform your sex life.)