A.

“James tried to imaging a future in which he did not make love to Aiden, but in which they nonetheless shared the same house and slumbered innocently in the same bed and woke up every morning with that same bone-deep contentment he had felt this morning. Then he imagined a future that had no Aiden in it at all. It was no choice. No contest.”
― Alex Beecroft, Blue Steel Chain

“But she herself had never felt that way about anyone, not as a teenager, not in art school, not since. It occurred to her that except for her brother, when they were children, she’d never seen
a man naked. More than that: she’d never touched anyone and felt that warmth, that electric tension at the nearness of someone else. The only thing that had given her that feeling had
been art—and then, of course, Pearl.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“Do you like fishing?"
James didn't know what to make of the non sequiter. "Not really."
"But if I wanted to go you'd go with me, you'd still come, wouldn't you? It's like that."
James didn't see how sex could possibly be like that, but Aiden knew his own mind best.
...
"I'm honoured you would do that for me. What can I do to make it up to you?"
"Make me a coffee in the morning?"
"That's all?"
Aiden shook his head, as if exasperated that they were coming up against a translation problem. "A coffee in bed first thing in the morning would really improve my day," he explained slightly sharp. "Sex isn't more important than that. You;d have to get up before me and go downstairs in the cold and boil the kettle while you were still bleary and zombified. If you did that for m, of course I would know that you loved me. It would be just the same.”
― Alex Beecroft, Blue Steel Chain

“I liked the look of both. Both had the potential to make me want to draw nearer. But when I did … there was nothing. I had a complete lack of that desire to get even closer—and less clothed—which everyone around me seemed to have.”
― A.M. Strickland, Beyond the Black Door