The ruling principle is one of reciprocal obsession in sallies of boundary-free intimacy that are either real or make-believe, and absent any way to tell the difference.
This four-part series dips into free-flowing intimacy in the '60s and '70s through film clips and music and touches upon the high points of America's sexual heyday, including Alfred Kinsey, Marilyn Monroe, Bettie Page, "Sex and the Single Girl," swinging, "Midnight Cowboy," bra burning (it didn't happen), Stonewall, "Deep Throat," Roe v. Wade and AIDS.
Such people--known as avoidants or dismissives in attachment theory--will enjoy the fun of being with someone who appears to have few if any needs; avoidants crave the commitment and intimacy free partner.
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Mr. Phillips has formally correct but intimacy-free relationships with his sons and his wife.
And, in truth, the frost had long since matured into a kind of bodily aloofness, just shy of visible flinching, when they passed each other in the halls, or when they co-slept in the intimacy-free bed they'd splurged on.
This kind of cynical, unshockable, intimacy-free advice is really hip for a lot of people, and there are people out there who are spinning it.
In "When the Cathedrals Were White," these lines immediately precede the sentence now engraved on the pavement: "The window behind which a man stands is a poem of intimacy, of the free consideration of things.
Physical proximity, particularly in contact sports like boxing, wrestling, and pancration (a rule-free mixture of both) promoted intimacy.
Among the prime objections to condom usage is the blocking of erotic sensation, and/or the intimacy that barrier-free sex provides.
It is about what we bring to the cyber-table (like a fear of being seen or judged) that makes us mortally vulnerable to a system of pseudo-intimacy that offers free delivery.
