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What is Intimacy and Sexuality in Relationships

Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley
4 min readMar 15, 2024

For today’s article, I will be discussing intimacy and sexuality within relationships, which can be a highly controversial topic and incredibly emotionally charged for people who have intimacy issues or have experienced terrible relationships with the opposite sex.

Also, for this article, I will not be discussing LGBTQ relationships because I lack personal experience of what those relationships entail and because I am not a gay man or lesbian, nor am I a member of the transgender community.

LGBTQ people tend to be over-sexualised within online social media and on the Internet due to the growth of online pornography and the growth of sexuality and sexual images within modern culture.

People who are part of the trans community tend to have low sex drives or have some sexual medical issues due to the hormones they are taking.

A transwoman tends to have a low sex drive due to the oestrogenic she is taking.

Trans men are women that transition to live a male lifestyle which can also involve taking testosterone which can cause vagina atrophy which can make penetrative sex incredibly painful.

Sexual Intimacy

What is Intimacy

If you are to have any interactions, this is not just within the context of a relationship but also…

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Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley
Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley

Written by Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley

I have been writing from 2014 to the present day; my writing is focused on history, politics, culture, geopolitics and other related topics.

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