Steps can then be taken to slow down the natural progression before it gets started. It doesn't work to allow all the preliminary intimacies and then hope to stop the progression just short of intercourse. Very few people have the willpower to do that.
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
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