Before we had kids we spent a week at a wonderful place in St. Barts. Our room was close to the beach but had an outside terrace protected by high shrubbery. We would get a bottle of wine and would have sex there every afternoon in bright daylight. We could hear people on the beach, but were hopefully quiet enough that nobody heard us. Sex in bed is good, but those were just wonderful afternoons and are some of my fondest memories.
Dim is always romantic but total darkness would be yummy. Relying on a couple of other senses to explore and find just those perfect spots on each other.......
I always want the light on. I'm very visual and want to see everything. Besides, I'm scared of the dark! No, that's a joke.
Candle light. Romantic low light, just enough to avoid painful collisions. Either my wife or I will light the candle to signal readiness. We've burned through quite a number of them.
And there are people who don't care about the light question at all.My parents were both totally blind. And I'm here 62 years later.
My hubby and I don't have time to check the lighting when the urge occurs .... day or night, indoors or outdoors (weather permitting), lights on or off .... we don't care, we just totally enjoy each other ... don't need any artificial settings to create the mood ... our bodies do that for use.
I've been wearing glasses since 10 and my eyes are not that great without them. Can't really see very much, so everything is kinda blurry. Which means doing things in the dark or very dim light is actually more comfortable. It also leaves scope for more imagination and makes it easier to delve deeper into one's self and feelings without the distraction of trying to focus on things that won't be sharp anyway.So, it's the dark for me ...
I used to be a full light guy with operating floods on my partner. Now that I'm not attractive anymore I like dim light. I'm very nearsighted so the total dark is pretty freaky for me.
The mood sets the lighting. If indoors typically dim, outdoors.... Depends on the time of day or night.
Definitely with the lights on. Being able to see my partner's facial expressions is particularly important.
Light or dark, they are all fine. One of the nice things about the winter is we can fire up the gas fireplace in the bedroom. Everything looks so nice by firelight and the warmth is very nice. We tend to keep it cool in the house. It makes rolling around very pleasurable.
For me it is not the lighting that matters, it is the person.Yes the person is important. But circumstances enter into it as well -- for example, I remember sex in the back of a bus on the way back from a school trip. It wouldn't have happened if the lights had been left on 😃. But while bright, clinical lights are seldom appropriate (for me at least -- might be different for our med-fet participants) a fairly well-light apartment with three like-minded couples can be the setting for a very pleasant evening.