foreplay

• After twelve years of mental foreplay, they would finally give in to their hormones. —  Chapter 1
• Konar had skipped the setting for foreplay, and internal wiring allowed him to bring her to orgasm at the press of a button. —  Asimov's SF - February2006
• Like foreplay, the road twisted back and forth and provided glimpses of the white-stuccoed brick and glass cube among the trees. —  XXXX
• It wasn't until my early 20s that I had an epiphany: in the middle of foreplay, my thirty-something lover grabbed my graceless, probing hand and politely but succinctly said, —  Black Entertainment : Black News : Urban News : Hip Hop News - EURweb.com
• Watching this is like watching a porno directed by David Duke and starring an all-star GOP cast where the foreplay is the utterance of disgusting rhetoric, lies, misrepresentations, and complete and utter bullshit and the climax is the roaring crowd. —  Phillybits

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