What is sexual pleasure?
Sexual pleasure usually begins when you feel sexual desire. Very often it also involves emotions, for example: sharing intimacy or feeling happy while caressing each other.
Sexual arousal
If your body is stimulated, you can get aroused. Your body can go through several phases of arousal. If you are very aroused, you can have an orgasm. To get aroused, people like to, for example:
on various parts of the body.
The erogenous zones for many people are the:
Different for everyone, each time
Sex can be different every time and for every couple. Talk with your partner about what you both like and how you like it (soft or hard, quick or slow, with your fingers, lips or tongue. etc.).
People can have sexual intercourse but it is not essential to having sexual pleasure. You can also just enjoy being intimate with each other: cuddle, caress, talk, enjoy each other’s company.
If you are very aroused, you can have an orgasm. Sometimes you will not have an orgasm. This is not a problem if you and your partner are not unhappy about it.
Protection against STIs
You can have sexual pleasure when using a condom during sexual intercourse. Use a condom to protect against STIs.
If you have no desire to have children at the moment, use a condom or another method of contraception.