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The truth about intimacy

he fear of intimacy manifested in an assortment of ways for the clients I worked with, everything from ejaculating too soon to not being able to orgasm; and having meaningless, superficial sex with people they didn’t care about to never having had sex at all. The commonality among them all was a difficulty in staying present in the moment. That’s what intimacy needs: presence. One of the first techniques we learned and shared was

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