I believe most of any sexual experience happens in the imagination before, during and after the physical act.
I don’t lessen the experience of any sexual encounter because I understand the art of Tantric sex. It is very deep and requires absolutely no physical contact.
but I am very well aware of how that is far from any sort of majority opinion. But I can tell you that the actual physical act of sex, as in coitus real time, for me is highly ummm, physical, very deep and highly mental, and emotional as well… It entails, any act of sex that is an act of sex and I feel those are obvious.
I mean basically sex is sex, that’s a no brainer, it is physical, it entails all of the bells and whistles, two present and somewhat at least copacetic people, but I think intimacy happens on different levels, in many different tactile as well as mental impulse and emotional ways,
If the end result is the same, and I can imagine that well enough to achieve orgasim at a distance with another person, to me it is not only sex, it is intimate… but I believe highly in spooky entanglement and all of the new studies being conducted in physics and brain function, I believe that people, emotions, sex, feelings and experiences can happen at remote distances within the psyche, and in the mind as it acts upon the physical body.
but I know that is weird to most people.
I’m basically one of these “Nutters” http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/personal.html
and I am very well aware it is unconventional and strange to most people to consider a non physical act a sexual act.