More and more sex lives are being healed by Sensate Sex, a long, slow sex focused on experiencing both partners’ feelings, rather than getting to the orgasm.

Sensate Sex gets into the nitty-gritty, asking partners to note textures and temperatures of what they feel. It reduces performance anxiety, as performance is not the point. The idea behind Sensate Sex is that body awareness increases emotional awareness.

Sensate uses at least three sessions, each 60 minutes long. During the first session, touching breasts or groins is off limits, although each partner is naked. This partly incites passion, partly develops intimacy.

Though Sensate Sex may be recently gaining attention, the idea is not new and incorporates elements of tantric sex and karezza.