What comes to mind when you hear the word intimacy? Is it sex? For most people it is.
“Being intimate” has somehow become a polite way of talking about sex, and yet sex and intimacy are not synonyms. Simply, sex is a physical act, while intimacy can be physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual or experiential.
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