LOVE IS PAINFUL, BUT THE PAIN IS CERTAINLY A BLESSING. Sex is not painful. Sex is very convenient, comfortable. People use it almost as a sedative, a tranquillizer.
Love is painful - because love brings growth. Love is painful because love demands. Love is painful because love transforms. Love is painful because love gives you a new birth.
Sex does not touch you at all. It is mechanical. It is just physiological. Love brings your heart into relationship - and when the heart is in relationship there is always pain. But don t avoid the pain. If you avoid the pain, you will miss all pleasures of life.