Whether it’s Valentine’s Day or a family dinner with that nosy aunt who never fails to ask about your love life, the pressure to be with a special someone can trigger a healthy dose of dating anxiety.

A recent study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior provides new insights into how our sense of smell and feelings of disgust may be related to the way we experience intimacy in romantic ...

Four examples—literary, biographical, autobiographical and contemporary—illustrate the significance of intimacy as a cultural ideal and why, despite our deep longing for it, intimacy remains elusive ...

But interestingly, friendship is the exception when it comes to intimacy. Few of us want anarchic love lives, or to treat our children as equals. We gravitate instead towards more rigid, hierarchical, ...