No actual sex happens and no actual falling in love happens. All the dazzling, seductive hallmarks of sex or love the narrator refers to are merely a performance simulating what happens before the real thing, the times when sex or love might have actually happened under the same conditions having long passed. Much easier, and safer, to just "Dream, dream" about them instead. Suspicion confirmed.
No actual sex happens and no actual falling in love happens. All the dazzling, seductive hallmarks of sex or love the narrator refers to are merely a performance simulating what happens before the real thing, the times when sex or love might have actually happened under the same conditions having long passed. Much easier, and safer, to just "Dream, dream" about them instead. Suspicion confirmed.