However, in the absence of genuine sexual intimacy (best defined as «in - to - me - see»), we settle for sexual intensity: erotica, pornography, an office romance, an extramarital affair or
whatever strokes the ego and provides the sexual high we crave.
Heading to church on Sunday gives you your next fix with the Priest telling you how important you are to God and that you will get to live for eternity in heaven, which is
whatever you want it to be... talk about an
ego stroke.