December 18, 2024

Making love is sexual intimacy that involves more than just a physical connection. It also encompasses an emotional connection that reflects a bond of mutual respect and trust. It’s a time to relax and let your guard down while enjoying the sensual pleasure of touching, massaging and kissing. It’s a time to enjoy your partner’s touch, scent and mouth with the ultimate goal of satisfying each other sexually. It’s a time for orgasms that are both physical and spiritual.

When people talk about “making love,” it is often synonymous with “having sex.” However, this is not always the case. Having sex refers to general sexual intercourse with any person. This can be a partner, spouse or beloved, while making love implies sexual intercourse with someone that you have a special bond with. It reflects affection for the person and not just an urge for sexual intercourse.

The difference between the two is that making love relates to an intimate and emotional bond with your partner while having sex simply focuses on physical satisfaction. The key to making love is communication. By talking about your needs and expectations, you can ensure that both of you will be happy with the outcome of your sexual experience. Make sure that you are prepared for your sexual encounter by dressing in lingerie that makes you feel beautiful and by lighting a scented candle to create an intimate atmosphere. It’s important to communicate what you want from your partner before and during the act to avoid any confusion.

Many couples confuse really good sex for making love, but there is a fine line between lust and desire and love. The act of making love is one of the most sacred rituals that human beings have in common. It is a time to honor each other’s bodies as equals and to connect with the spirit of the other. It is a sacred experience of seamless solidarity and union.

A man who loves you will be willing to take risks and explore new sex positions, try out sex toys and do anything else that will help to deepen your intimacy with him. He will be completely focused on you and will not be distracted by his thoughts or other people. This is a sign of genuine love and shows that you can trust him.

You can tell if you’re making love by the way your partner acts during and after the act. You will see him or her smiling, blushing and acting in ways that express their emotions. You will hear them moan and groan and you will be touched by their body language as they caress and stroke yours. If you are able to communicate with your partner and understand each other’s needs, you will be able to enjoy a deeper level of sexual intimacy than you ever imagined possible. Download Relish to get full access to expert relationship coaches, therapist approved quizzes and more, free for one week.

A container, usually cylindrical with a narrow neck and a wider body, for holding liquids or other materials. It may be decorated or otherwise embellished with a wide variety of design and decoration techniques to enhance the beauty and value of the bottle and its contents. Also known as a flask, jug or pot. The word is most often used in reference to a small glass vessel for beverage purposes but can apply to other containers as well. See the Bottle Typology page for more details.

Applied color label – A common way to decorate or label a bottle by painting, etching or engraving with mineral or organge pigments in a thermoplastic medium that is baked in the furnace to form a durable surface. It was commonly called “enameling” or “fire-fused” (now mostly referred to as pyroglazing) in the past but more recently is also referred to as applied color lettering, painted or printed labels and painted bottles. See the Bottle Decoration page for more details.

Decolorizing – A process of neutralizing or eliminating iron and carbonaceous impurities in the glass mix or batch to produce clear or colorless glass. Historically, it was accomplished by adding selenium, manganese dioxide and/or arsenic. The addition of these substances was referred to by early glassmakers as “glassmakers’ soap” as they were capable of removing many of the unwanted elements from a bottle resulting in a higher quality bottle (White 1978).

Hinge mold base

A type of two-piece glass mold in which the base plate section is attached directly to the heel portion of the body and bisected the side mold seam. Typically, these bottles have no pontil mark superimposed on the side mold seam and are considered to be free-blown. See the Bottle Bases page for pictures of examples.

Ground rim/lip bottle – A finish on which the top surface has been hand ground to enhance sealing and closure fit. Generally found on hand-made bottles with outside screw-threads – especially canning and fruit jars. The term is also used in reference to other types of hand-made bottles with a flat bottom lip which has been hand ground – like the round utility bottle finishes shown on the Bottle Bases page.

Ghost seams – The lightly imprinted, meandering mold seams on the body, neck and sometimes base of a machine-made bottle that are caused by distortion of the parison as it is expanded in the second blow mold. The appearance of these seams on the body, neck and/or base is conclusive evidence that a bottle was made by machine rather than being mouth-blown. See the Machine-made Bottles page for more details.

Glossary

This glossary contains a collection of bottle related terminology that is either collector based, technical glassmaking jargon or a mixture of both. Where appropriate, definitions and references will be provided for each entry. Terms whose meanings are well understood within the collector community at large but are not widely accepted in glassmaking circles will be identified as such.