I think it's just as important.

But as our lives get busier and busier, and sex becomes something to fit in around the rest of our "things to do", foreplay takes a less significant role.

I also think foreplay is so much more than physical contact. It can start with a coy glance in the morning and last all day in IM's.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.