What it means to be intimate

Sometimes singles – and everyone else – will go to great lengths and even make complete fools of themselves to get close to the opposite sex. 

Why? Is it because our innate desire for sex? Is it because of loneliness? Desperation? Stupidity? Hormones? Of course, it can be all of the above, but the answer I'd like to focus on is: intimacy. 

The human desire for intimacy, for love, drives us to do things that we never thought we would. But why, and what does it mean to be intimate?  read more