“But what is this psychic space, this common ground we seek to share, called intimacy – this place where you can exist in your own inner light and not be judged, this haven where your vulnerabilities don’t humiliate you, where sex is always warm and close and all your funny lines are understood, and there is always someone back to back with you when you take on the world?It’s a place where not only joy can be shared but hardship too, it’s an eye that catches yours across a room, it’s not having to look your best, it’s knowing someone else so well you can no longer tell where they begin and you leave off.”

− Merle Shain −