If you can create as an author beautiful love scenes in the clean romance spirit, I have a firm belief that if you write romance with high heat levels and, I would say The Girl on the Half Shell qualifies as high heat level, then those scenes will be all the better, all the more emotion stirring because you've taken time to learn the discipline required to make a good sex scene a total experience for your characters on the page and your readers.
To write about sex to simply write about the sex act is easy. To write about sex without ever writing about sex is an art.