Date: 28 Feb 2001 02:12 pm (UTC)
I /do/ realize we approach this whole subject in different ways. I see (emotional) intimacy as knowingness, approval, and seeing the other person's interests as an extension of your own. Wanting to share an orgasm with someone is a different negotiation, and includes a lot of stuff that is seperate from emotional intimacy (attraction, risk management and shared goals issues). Emotional intimacy, given that it happens over a timespan of years is not a prerequisite for sex, which takes months at *most* to reach consummation (barring religious objections). Really strong lust can disguise itself as emotional intimacy, but when the hormonal fog lifts, reality reasserts itself and you find that you are involved with a person who is *gasp* very different from you and *gasp* you didn't know as well as you thought you did. The real thing takes years.
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