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Alex answers What does 'intimacy' mean to you?

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  1. Intimacy and sex are completely separate things! Having been single and therefore rather frustrated for the past nine months, i recently realised it's not the actual act of sex that i miss, but the caressing, and kissing and stroking and they way it makes your skin tingle. Women in particular get so much pleasure from simple touching, exploring, and sensuality, sometimes more pleasure than from sex. You can have sex with anyone. Intimacy is something you have with that one person you are in a relationship with, a connection you have with no one else...”

    Posted by Katy on 15th Nov at 1:24PM (flag as inappropriate)

  2. i beleive that intimacy is the combining of one soul in two bodies.
    i feel intimacy is an important part of a successful life, and without it you are an empty shell of a person.
    If i didn't have the intimacy that i do with my boyfriend then i don't know how i would ever cope.
    I love him so much it sometimes pains me, i miss him even when we are together.”

    Posted by Mathew on 10th Sep at 4:36PM (flag as inappropriate)

I think people who use the word intimacy in the context of sex tend to link it with the notion of sex in the romantic context... That’s something that’s totally alien to me.”

Alex, 32

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