Better Than Sex Ideas

1) Read this list of things (many of them backed by statistics from actual studies!) that people have cited as being better than sex in some way.

2) Pick something on this list. Your female protagonist finds it more gratifying than sex. That is, she feels better after doing that than she feels after doing sex.

3) Pick something else on this list. Your male protagonist finds it more interesting than sex. That is, he would rather watch or talk about that than contemplate having sex.

4) One of these things will appear frequently in the story, available as a distraction to the target character. The other will be very hard to find, and thus distracting because it tempts the other character into great efforts to obtain it. You get to pick which is which.

5) Despite these forces pulling the characters away from each other, they have at least one strong reason to fall in love. Describe it.

6) They also have a plot-worthy force binding them together, even during times they want to walk away. Outline it.

7) You should now have two imaginary people screaming at each other and bouncing back and forth like pheromone-overdosed ping-pong balls. If they aren't, make the situation worse somehow. Lather, rinse, repeat as necessary.