Is Phone Sex better than real Sex?

Q. After the intensity and novelty of phone sex, can sex with an ordinary long-term partner ever be just as good?

Phone sex gives the participant a concentrated dose of those early intensity-based days of sex in a new relationship. But phone sex has many drawbacks as well, and the price can be exorbitant. Alone with only the phone for company, phone sex participants are in fact isolated from real human contact. Phone sex objectifies the participants. They are often reduced to body parts. Real-life sex with a committed partner can evolve an intimacy that makes it much better than sex with one's own hand and a picture in a porn mag. But real intimacy takes dedicated work, communication, and play.