Eating together/cooking for someone. If you can find someone who mirrors your appreciation for food and pushes you to try new things, it can be amazing. Sharing thoughts on it while you share a meal, asking “what did you season this with?”, noting on additions/subtractions to a meal. Food can be a very intimate thing.
I got food poisoning while travelling. There was liquid coming out of every Orifice of my body and he helped me through the whole thing from gassy tummy to fetal position in the bathroom while dry heaving and pissing my pants.
True love.
Side note: the favour was returned the next day when it caught up to him.
Not a parent, or a woman, but Id imagine the relationship between Mother and Child, especially early on, is more intimate than garden variety boot knocking.
Deep emotional intimacy and vulnerability. When it is relational relating 100%, when nothing is being hidden or obscured, that is as intimate as it gets.
Taking care of someone after major surgery. Keeping meds on schedule, emptying drains, changing bandages, being patient while they’re using a walker, etc.
Hearing someone else talk about their childhood
We all had a childhood and sometimes can relate or learn about a person.
That feeling of feeling nostalgia about someone else’s childhood. It is hard to describe.
Kissing, communication (the good and bad talks). body language, consent
As a woman with a weird way of doing things due to my own issues.
Sex hasn’t been a emotional thing for me unfortunately.
But it’s all of the things that can make sex emotional.
It all in some way shows someone listens and cares about the physical needs.
Neh can’t think of anything else as intimate as I would as gladly licking the sweat off my (one day) woman’s back in the midst of balls deepen-ness as I slap her and tell her she’s ruining the moment(she’s not)
Smoking weed together and talking. I find that people’s defenses naturally come down when you’re high and it’s much easier to have a real heart-to-heart when you’re high. I actually think this is why it causes paranoia in some people (they’re worried something true but embarrassing will come out)
For me it’s talking. Not like small talk but deep conversations, taking interest in my interests, ask about my day, plan our future together, share our hopes/dreams together, etc.
I believe emotional connection and trust are more intimate things. When two people understand each other and share their feelings openly, it creates a much deeper bond.
I laid in the hospital bed with my wife the night before her surgery and we just recollected some of the best memories we shared together. She was so scared, tbh so was I but I was trying to be strong, and this was the most comforting thing I could accomplish in that moment.
Fortunately, it went well and she recovered as well as we could hope to. She later admitted that she was afraid she was going to die, and brought up the memories because she wanted to comfort me.
I don’t think sex is very intimate in general. I think laying on the couch with your partner, snuggled watching TV, with a few kisses peppered in is much more intimate. You can meet a person and have sex with them that very night, but you can’t meet someone and feel comfortable enough to let them see you in your down time, at home.
Having a girl who is obsessed with popping your pimples and searching your back, shoulders, chest and face with the precision and intensity of a pirate looking for treasure, that’s pretty up there I’d say lol
I love touching in a non-sexual manner. I think it’s very intimate. I scratch the nape of my boyfriends neck, his back, his head, etc very lightly with my nails. Sometimes I even use clean makeup brushes to brush on his skin lightly to soothe him. I really love ASMR so that probably explains why I love doing it haha.
Talking about personal trauma. I can imagine myself having sex with anyone who scores a 7 and above on the scale, that’s just being horny. I can’t imagine even opening up about trauma unless it is with a trusted and loving partner.
Just being held and cuddled, being there listening and understanding them. Small kisses with a smile on your lips, saying I love you and actually meaning it. Willing to drop everything to be beside them in an emergency. Being silly in a cute way together ❤️
When i helped shave the love of my life in the shower for the first time. Something about it was so personal… comforting… it felt so special. Sorry if it’s TMI.
Sharing a psychedelic experience together. Yeah, you can feel someone during sex, but knowing their soul, everything that makes them, them, is something else entirely. Tripping with your life partner is where it’s at.
I put my head in my girlfriend’s lap the other day, and was kind of not putting my full weight on her lap because I didn’t want to hurt or cause her discomfort. And she said “you can put your full weight on me – it’s okay” and I just sort of let go, and sunk into her lap a bit, and she ran her nails through my hair, and we talked about our insecurities and fears and hopes for the future. So that.
Holding a man as he cries in your arms. And loving him through it and absorbing his energy, channeling it though your body, cleansing it with love, and giving it back to him.
Nope. There are some close ones, like showering together, but for me sex is it. I also tend to be an open book and will discuss literally all my deepest inner feelings with a bunch of people I’m close with, except about my sex life. That’s between my wife and I.
Sharing MY fries. For the life of me anytime someone reaches for my chips I’m like a little Pomeranian, growling over them. Even my own child when he was a toddler would get a screw face until I reluctantly gave in(he had his own, sue me). So I find it an extreme privilege for me to share my fries with someone.
Honestly? Yeah. Emotional vulnerability. There’s something way more intimate about someone choosing to open up the rawest, most unfiltered parts of themselves to you. When someone trusts you with their fears, their childhood wounds, the thoughts they’ve never spoken out loud that kind of connection hits deeper than physical intimacy ever could. Sex can be passionate, sure, but sharing your soul? That’s rare. That’s when you’re not just touching bodies you’re touching hearts, minds, memories. And not everyone earns that kind of access.
My husband is in the Navy and he has spent 95% of the last three years gone from our home. Every time he leaves, he says “I will always come home to you” and while gone, in between limited conversations, he reminds me that I am his reason. So so so intimate. To live your life and dedicate your career to the military for the betterment of your family just… inspires me.
washing each other in the shower, having a laugh, holding each other when we cry. staring into each others eyes. taking care of them after a surgery/ illness. being emotionally and physically vulnerable and trusting the other person with that.
My partner got a bug bite in his butt crack and scratched it until it was a raw open wound so I had to go back there and play ass nurse until it healed. We laughed a lot and I think it brought us closer together
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Helping each other to the bathroom when one is sick
There’s a lot of things but most involve sex tbh.
• Cuddling after sex
• Washing each others backs in the shower
• Actual lovemaking (not regular sex)
• Saying I love you
• Sitting in the hospital with someone all night
Having a shit while she’s in the bath
Eating together/cooking for someone. If you can find someone who mirrors your appreciation for food and pushes you to try new things, it can be amazing. Sharing thoughts on it while you share a meal, asking “what did you season this with?”, noting on additions/subtractions to a meal. Food can be a very intimate thing.
Talking about sports
Letting the other person know your deepest fears, insecurities, secrets, etc.
Feeling understood and heard.
Talking about family issues
Anal
Transforming optimus prime for the first time
I mean kinky sex has for sure been a closer experience than regular sex 🤷🏼♂️
Fighting someone. You get to be up close and personal with the added benefit of hurting each other
Rim jobs
Sunsets on a near empty beach next to each other and cold drinks nearby.
Sex means nothing to me. Maybe because I have a half inch that has never been hard. But to me I am sexless..
Her shaving his face.
Massage.
It’s not exactly sexy. But it feels so personal and intimate.
You’re damn near naked in a relaxing room while somebody rubs their hands and maybe other body parts all over your body. For a while.
On top of that – they are professionals. There’s no hesitation or unsureness. It’s all confidence. It just adds to it.
Preparing food for one’s lover is the most intimate gift of all… Aside from washing their hair
I got food poisoning while travelling. There was liquid coming out of every Orifice of my body and he helped me through the whole thing from gassy tummy to fetal position in the bathroom while dry heaving and pissing my pants.
True love.
Side note: the favour was returned the next day when it caught up to him.
Cooking together. I hate when other people are in the kitchen with me, so if we cook together to me that’s extremely intimate.
Holding hands mutually
Barfing your brains out around someone. Generally being sick and or vulnerable around them.
Not a parent, or a woman, but Id imagine the relationship between Mother and Child, especially early on, is more intimate than garden variety boot knocking.
Cooking and listening to music together🧘♀️
Take your thinly veiled ad for your porn and fuck off.
Deep emotional intimacy and vulnerability. When it is relational relating 100%, when nothing is being hidden or obscured, that is as intimate as it gets.
Listening to Radiohead on vinyl
Having someone take care of you after major surgery
Washing each other’s hair, per Charles Boyle
Taking care of someone after major surgery. Keeping meds on schedule, emptying drains, changing bandages, being patient while they’re using a walker, etc.
sleeping next to each other. him brushing my hair to one side and kissing me, nothing is more intimate than that.
Showering together
Unloading childhood trauma
Having a healthy disagreement and recovering in a healthy, open, honest and receptive way 🙂
Hearing someone else talk about their childhood
We all had a childhood and sometimes can relate or learn about a person.
That feeling of feeling nostalgia about someone else’s childhood. It is hard to describe.
Kissing, communication (the good and bad talks). body language, consent
As a woman with a weird way of doing things due to my own issues.
Sex hasn’t been a emotional thing for me unfortunately.
But it’s all of the things that can make sex emotional.
It all in some way shows someone listens and cares about the physical needs.
Neh can’t think of anything else as intimate as I would as gladly licking the sweat off my (one day) woman’s back in the midst of balls deepen-ness as I slap her and tell her she’s ruining the moment(she’s not)
Smoking weed together and talking. I find that people’s defenses naturally come down when you’re high and it’s much easier to have a real heart-to-heart when you’re high. I actually think this is why it causes paranoia in some people (they’re worried something true but embarrassing will come out)
Holding hands, nothing is more intimate. Sex is rarely intimate.
Actual deep communication.
For me it’s talking. Not like small talk but deep conversations, taking interest in my interests, ask about my day, plan our future together, share our hopes/dreams together, etc.
Helping with their medical care when they can’t help themselves. It’s like they’re this little cute puddle of helplessness.
i was doing cpr on a man I didn’t know when he died. we both knew it was happening.
not recommended for your mental health.
I believe emotional connection and trust are more intimate things. When two people understand each other and share their feelings openly, it creates a much deeper bond.
Pfff life is not only sex tho?? You really get tired only sex??
Being vulnerable
I’m a slut for intimacy.
I think it might be sharing life traumas, crying together, and comforting each other.
These things also tend to make sex better too
Sharing my music library
Snuggling naked on the couch while bingewatching a show and sharing a big bowl of popcorn
I laid in the hospital bed with my wife the night before her surgery and we just recollected some of the best memories we shared together. She was so scared, tbh so was I but I was trying to be strong, and this was the most comforting thing I could accomplish in that moment.
Fortunately, it went well and she recovered as well as we could hope to. She later admitted that she was afraid she was going to die, and brought up the memories because she wanted to comfort me.
It’s the most intimate moment I’ve ever had
Watersports
Being snuggled
I don’t think sex is very intimate in general. I think laying on the couch with your partner, snuggled watching TV, with a few kisses peppered in is much more intimate. You can meet a person and have sex with them that very night, but you can’t meet someone and feel comfortable enough to let them see you in your down time, at home.
Having a girl who is obsessed with popping your pimples and searching your back, shoulders, chest and face with the precision and intensity of a pirate looking for treasure, that’s pretty up there I’d say lol
Spending money lol
Therapy
Letting your significant other what they mean to you and how they compliment your life so well.
I love touching in a non-sexual manner. I think it’s very intimate. I scratch the nape of my boyfriends neck, his back, his head, etc very lightly with my nails. Sometimes I even use clean makeup brushes to brush on his skin lightly to soothe him. I really love ASMR so that probably explains why I love doing it haha.
Talking about personal trauma. I can imagine myself having sex with anyone who scores a 7 and above on the scale, that’s just being horny. I can’t imagine even opening up about trauma unless it is with a trusted and loving partner.
Taking care of each other when you’re sick
You will not be sure you know, until neither one of you ever has morning breath anymore.
Just being held and cuddled, being there listening and understanding them. Small kisses with a smile on your lips, saying I love you and actually meaning it. Willing to drop everything to be beside them in an emergency. Being silly in a cute way together ❤️
Massage
Wiping someone else’s ass
Asking for visual confirmation of a hemorrhoid.
When she wraps her arms around me. Think love and safe.
Sex without a condom
Swallowing
Trimming her up…down there.
Falling asleep in the presence of someone you trust dearly.
Genuinely feeling appreciated!
It doesn’t happen often but when someone sees you’re hard work and effort you put it in, it feels amazing!!!
I think sitting in a comfortable silence with each other while you each do your own thing has its own sense of intimacy
Wiping someone’s ass.
Fighting, especially if your grappler. The close contact, smells, sweat, grips, etc. make it more close and personal.
When i helped shave the love of my life in the shower for the first time. Something about it was so personal… comforting… it felt so special. Sorry if it’s TMI.
Sharing a psychedelic experience together. Yeah, you can feel someone during sex, but knowing their soul, everything that makes them, them, is something else entirely. Tripping with your life partner is where it’s at.
Shitting while they’re in the bathroom with you.
During a 3some apparently kissing is more intimate. My gf let me know that vehemently.
Talking to and playing piano for my plants because they actually grow more
Massaging her feet. Ifykyk
My best friend wiped my ass and carried me when my back was totally fucked and I was awaiting surgery. Also: giving someone a bath.
I put my head in my girlfriend’s lap the other day, and was kind of not putting my full weight on her lap because I didn’t want to hurt or cause her discomfort. And she said “you can put your full weight on me – it’s okay” and I just sort of let go, and sunk into her lap a bit, and she ran her nails through my hair, and we talked about our insecurities and fears and hopes for the future. So that.
Holding a man as he cries in your arms. And loving him through it and absorbing his energy, channeling it though your body, cleansing it with love, and giving it back to him.
Nope. There are some close ones, like showering together, but for me sex is it. I also tend to be an open book and will discuss literally all my deepest inner feelings with a bunch of people I’m close with, except about my sex life. That’s between my wife and I.
Cooking together, its such a connecting experience in my opinion. I absolutely adore it.
Sharing MY fries. For the life of me anytime someone reaches for my chips I’m like a little Pomeranian, growling over them. Even my own child when he was a toddler would get a screw face until I reluctantly gave in(he had his own, sue me). So I find it an extreme privilege for me to share my fries with someone.
giving her oral sex > PIV. So intimate.
Honestly? Yeah. Emotional vulnerability. There’s something way more intimate about someone choosing to open up the rawest, most unfiltered parts of themselves to you. When someone trusts you with their fears, their childhood wounds, the thoughts they’ve never spoken out loud that kind of connection hits deeper than physical intimacy ever could. Sex can be passionate, sure, but sharing your soul? That’s rare. That’s when you’re not just touching bodies you’re touching hearts, minds, memories. And not everyone earns that kind of access.
Smoking a blunt with someone. Idk why but both of u chilling alone high and it helps the atmosphere more comfortable
My husband is in the Navy and he has spent 95% of the last three years gone from our home. Every time he leaves, he says “I will always come home to you” and while gone, in between limited conversations, he reminds me that I am his reason. So so so intimate. To live your life and dedicate your career to the military for the betterment of your family just… inspires me.
Being honest and taking accountability for your actions.
washing each other in the shower, having a laugh, holding each other when we cry. staring into each others eyes. taking care of them after a surgery/ illness. being emotionally and physically vulnerable and trusting the other person with that.
Kissing
Star wars. I can have sex with a prostitute. I wan a girl who knows the clone wars is a baller cartoon
Holding hands while doing it
My partner got a bug bite in his butt crack and scratched it until it was a raw open wound so I had to go back there and play ass nurse until it healed. We laughed a lot and I think it brought us closer together
Okay I did this to myself I shouldn’t have opened the thread
Sharing a connection with another human so deeply that the warmth you feel when you think of them ignites your passions
Eye contact!
Cuddling. It’s just nice sharing a moment of comfort that’s not subconsciously tied to something “transactional” in my opinion.
As a person with two X chromosome’s it’s been ingrained in society that women are just objects to be used and that’s all our worth is tied to.
No, OP can I brush my head on your boobs?
Never talking to someone ever again even though you think of them
Sharing a lollipop. The thought of it resting on my tongue, steeped in my warmth, then finding its way to their mouth—it feels strangely intimate. 🫦