She would also sometimes complain that she wanted more kissing, and that I don’t kiss her enough. The whole metaphor of making out that my generation grew up with was that of baseball: first base, second base, third base, home run. If kissing is first base, you don’t want to end up at first base. The tipping point is that once you start having sex, you don’t really make out just to make out. Because after you scored a home run, you don’t really enjoy staying on first.