The Sex and Intimacy Project

Image by Johannes Barthelmes

The Inter­views
Luna
Sarah
Anony­mous male
Tutivil­lus
Amber
Sword­fish
Cur­va­ceous Dee
slf
D20
Shan­nee
Ellie Lumpesse
Ariel
Satine
Z
Ang
Sienna
The Beau­ti­ful Kind
Anony­mous female
Essin’ Em
Bianca J

The rela­tion­ship between sex and inti­macy has long fas­ci­nated me. For some, it seems intrin­si­cally con­nected, for oth­ers unsep­a­ra­ble. For still oth­ers, sex is one thing while inti­macy is some­thing wholly different.

I’m inter­ested in find­ing out how oth­ers feel about sex and inti­macy. If you are inter­ested in par­tic­i­pat­ing in a short questionnaire/interview, please leave me a com­ment. I’m cur­rently com­pil­ing ques­tions and you should receive them by the end of this week. If you’ve already con­tacted me via twit­ter, then I already have your name and infor­ma­tion. I’d like to gather as many dif­fer­ent points of views as pos­si­ble to gain a bet­ter per­sonal under­stand­ing of how peo­ple rec­on­cile sex and inti­macy, and I’ll pub­lish the answers/responses here to share with everyone.

So, if you’re inter­ested, just email me at soop­er­cat­head @ gmail dot com and answer all of the fol­low­ing ques­tions, and if you know any­one else who might be inter­ested in par­tic­i­pat­ing, please spread the word!

Name
Age
How do you iden­tify your­self sex­u­ally?
What is your cur­rent rela­tion­ship sta­tus?
Can I pub­lish your indi­vid­ual inter­view on my blog? If I pub­lish it, can I use your name or would you pre­fer to be anonymous?

What does inti­macy mean to you? How do you define inti­macy?
Do you think that all acts of sex are nec­es­sar­ily inti­mate?
What about sex makes it inti­mate? Makes it not inti­mate?
When is sex inti­mate?
Are some sex­ual acts more inti­mate than oth­ers?
Is the act of sex an inti­mate act for you? Why or why not? Does it change depend­ing on who your part­ners are?
How do you per­ceive the dif­fer­ing lev­els of inti­macy when mul­ti­ple part­ners are involved?
What about sex with­out inti­macy, like sex between strangers? Can there still be a level of inti­macy that builds between two peo­ple because of the act of sex itself?
What about inti­macy in vir­tual rela­tion­ships, like online where the sex itself may be vir­tual?
Please tell me a lit­tle bit about sex and inti­macy in your own life.

Thank you!