Intimacy: A closeness between people

•Types of intimacy:

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The Different Types of Intimacy

•7 key factors of intimacy:

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7 key factors to intimacy

•Examples of how different intimacy can look :

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PSA: Intimacy Looks Different for Everyone

7 key factors to intimacy

•Trust

•Honesty

•Safety

•Compassion

•Communication

•Acceptance

•Affection

Source:

https://www.healthline.com/health/intimacy#7-key-factors

Intimacy Isn’t Synonymous with Sex

PSA: Intimacy Looks Different for Everyone

Here are a few examples of how intimacy can look for different people:

-Cuddling

-Openly discussing thoughts and experiences or having a deep conversation

-Kissing

-Watching a show or movie together

-Body tracing

-Reading together

-A massage

-Going for a walk together

-Dancing together

-Sexual affection

-Playing with someone’s hair

-Cooking/Baking together

-Having a meal together

-Sitting with someone and really looking into their eyes

-Expressing opinions to each other

-Holding hands

-Expressing feelings to each other

-Saying “I love you”

-Sleeping next to each other

These are just some of the ways people can express intimacy. The purpose of this post is to show how different intimacy can look. There are different types of intimacy that can be seen in different types of relationships/friendships.

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The Different Types of Intimacy

The Different Types of Intimacy

•Emotional intimacy: Sharing deep thoughts and feelings, and feeling safe to share them.

•Intellectual intimacy: Exchanging ideas, opinions and expressing your interests (and it feels comfortable to do so).

•Physical intimacy: Physically showing affection. (This can be anything from holding hands to cuddling to sex)

•Experiential Intimacy: Sharing an experience with someone. (Ex: going for a walk, watching your favorite show together)

•Spiritual Intimacy: Ability to comfortably discuss spiritual/religious beliefs and respecting the other person and their beliefs. You do not have to have the same beliefs as the other person, but discussing spirituality can allow people to understand each other better.

Source:

https://psychcentral.com/blog/nourishing-the-different-types-of-intimacy-in-your-relationship/

Post about 7 key factors of intimacy:

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Sexy Fun Fact #7

Arefractory period is the period of time it takes for one’s body to recover and reset after an orgasm. Generally during this time the muscles relax and arousal lessens, making it difficult or impossible to orgasm or get aroused during this time.

It is mostly biological males who experience a refractory period, but it is possible for biological females to experience this too. The refractory period can last anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours or even longer.

Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional, just a person who wants to help others by spreading education about sex and sexuality.

I ran away to Amsterdam for a long weekend, I am predisposed to some airport panic but I had some techniques, music  and bleary tired eyes from an early rush to the airport , I had to have some stop moments of stopping, taking a breath and reordering my head. Instantly the proud architecture stood up to me, making the bleak but bright weather quite beautiful.  The Red Light District was a bit of a revelation,  these were women, young women my age and not wax works.  Their story plays on my mind and I naturally want to look closer but this isn’t a museum, I really recommend reading up on the way these girls are gathered, treated and neglected. Knowledge is Power. I managed to visit to the famous Condomerie, I found the Eiffel tower condom the most entertaining, a cultured and classy condom (hey!) Unfortunately, I didn’t have the time to get really visually involved.

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by Rosie

In light of February being LGBT+ History Month, I thought that I would take this blog post to write a little bit about my favourite historical figure, Alfred Kinsey, Regarded as the founder of modern sexology and responsible for (unsurprisingly!) the Kinsey Scale, the Kinsey Reports and the Kinsey Institute, it’s the research behind these things which makes him perhaps the most influential sex researcher in history.

A zoologist and entomologist by training, Kinsey’s first works focused on gall wasps and botany. However, his interest in human sexuality was sparked when teaching a college sex education course in the 1930s, and his realisation that there was very little information on the topic in response to his students’ questions. He therefore established a sex studies programme, designed to apply the principles and methods of scientific research to human sexuality. Over the next decades, the institute collected data from 11, 240 participants regarding their sexual behaviours, and these were published as Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female(1953).

The results shocked America. They presented an offence to the prevailing public view: that sex was heterosexual, within marriage and male-dominated. Instead, Kinsey’s statistics discussed the female orgasm, sex workers, masturbation, anal sex, sexual orientations, sadomasochism and even sexual activity with animals. They recognised the fluidity of sexual orientation and behaviour, and the Kinsey Scale was born with reference to this, acknowledging a spectrum of sexuality and asexuality.

His methods have been criticised with regards to the demographics represented within the sample. However, right up to today, few researchers have conducted such large-scale studies, the only comparable one being the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (NATSAL), first conducted in the UK in 1990 in the wake of the HIV epidemic, and repeated twice since.
Kinsey was just as progressive in his personal life. He was openly bisexual, and maintained an open marriage with his wife, Clara McMillen. His legacy has been continued by the Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, ad in the plethora of research on sex and sexualities for which he opened the doors to. In his active confrontation of the societal values surrounding sex to which the US held dear, he revolutionised the way in which the public viewed sex, and was considered by many to have been one of the catalysts for the sexual revolution in the 1960s. His findings had a profound impact upon education, public understanding and even sexual morality itself.

Defamed by the McCarthyist movement, Kinsey lost his research funding and died shortly after. However, his publications remain amongst some of the most influential scientific texts of the 20th century, and the impact of his research on academia and society endures.

For more information on the Kinsey Reports and their data, take a look on the website for the Kinsey Institute: http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/research/ak-data.html

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