There may be a sisterhood, but it's too often a fake intimacy, a self-reinforcing victimhood.
The irony is that they offer customers the fake intimacy of "the girlfriend experience" which includes kissing, cuddling and talking.
Philip talked to his wife about these memories, about how he had learned to "make it real" — to fake intimacy with a stranger until it felt organic.
Using the fake intimacy of a webcam broadcast, he expressed his deep frustration with the press and music industry for the way they were hounding Britney Spears during her breakdown.
This was the place where dancers fake intimacy and men hide their hard ons.
If an actress can fake an orgasm on the silver screen, why can't she fake intimacy on the red carpet?
All in the name of fake intimacy, all in the attempt to avoid being alone, to escape our existential fears of dying alone, we have sex to dull our pain.
When I asked if she fakes the intimacy, she told me the money is her primary motivator, but "when I'm there, I'm all theirs".
But during those four minutes, which feel nothing like as long as I thought they would, I have the unsettling thought that it hardly matters; that all intimacy is faked, really, whether after decades of marriage or an evening asking each other when you last cried; and that the simulation, in fact, is the whole point.
Intimacy, I feel, cannot be faked.
