OK. I'll try "wildly" and "passionately" and check my thesaurus for other useful words.
Let’s see... In her postcoital bliss, Dagny “saw a bruise above her elbow, with dark beads that had been blood.”
With physical results like these, “brutally” works just fine. This is beyond “wildly” and “passionately.”
Stick to “brutally,” Publius. It’s accurate.
I didn’t say “don’t use it”. Just said I hated it. It’s still a free country, for now, use it while you can.