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  2. Sexual desire and intimate relationships - Wikipedia

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    Sexual desire in romantic relationships. As a state that promotes passion and infatuation, sexual desire is often responsible in playing a role in initiating contact, motivating sexual interest, and seeking proximity. [8] By motivating proximity seeking behaviour, sexual desire promotes contact, and this may eventually foster commitment.

  3. Lust - Wikipedia

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    Lust is a psychological force producing intense desire for something. Lust can take any form such as the lust for sexuality (see libido), money, or power.It can take such mundane forms as the lust for food (see gluttony) as distinct from the need for food or lust for redolence, when one is lusting for a particular smell that brings back memories.

  4. Emotional intimacy - Wikipedia

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    Emotional intimacy. Emotional intimacy is an aspect of interpersonal relationships that varies in intensity from one relationship to another and varies from one time to another, much like physical intimacy. [1] Emotional intimacy involves a perception of closeness to another, sharing of personal feelings, and personal validation.

  5. Intimate relationship - Wikipedia

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    Sexuality. Practices. Abuse. v. t. e. An intimate relationship is an interpersonal relationship that involves emotional or physical closeness between people and may include sexual intimacy and feelings of romance or love. [1] Intimate relationships are interdependent, and the members of the relationship mutually influence each other. [2]

  6. Reciprocal liking - Wikipedia

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    Reciprocal liking, also known as reciprocity of attraction, [1] is the act of a person feeling an attraction to someone only upon learning or becoming aware of that person's attraction to themselves. Reciprocal liking has a significant impact on human attraction and the formation of relationships. [2] People that reciprocally have a liking for ...

  7. Autoeroticism - Wikipedia

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    Autoeroticism (also known as autoerotism, autosexuality, or self-gratification) [1] [2] is any sexual activity involving only one participant. [3] It is the practice of giving sexual pleasure to oneself. The term was popularized toward the end of the 19th century by British sexologist Havelock Ellis, who defined autoeroticism as "the phenomenon ...

  8. Mutual intelligibility - Wikipedia

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    There is a high level of mutual intelligibility between the closely related West Slavic languages Czech and Slovak (the Czech–Slovak languages). In linguistics , mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior ...

  9. Mutatis mutandis - Wikipedia

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    Mutatis mutandis. Look up mutatis mutandis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mutatis mutandis is a Medieval Latin phrase meaning "with things changed that should be changed" or "once the necessary changes have been made". [1] [2] [3] It continues to be seen as a foreign-origin phrase (and thus, unnaturalized, meaning not integrated as part of ...