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Comment author: [deleted] 08 September 2012 08:59:58PM 4 points [-]

By looking at the pyramid, I think he meant for "sexual intimacy" to be to "sex" as friendship is to conversation, i.e. by the former he meant what people today would call "being in a relationship" or "romance". But I'm not fully sure.

Comment author: DanArmak 08 September 2012 09:09:55PM 1 point [-]

You mean the function of guaranteeing availability? Having friends provides good conversation. Being in a relationship provides good sex.

And being free from worry about having to provide conversation or sex for tomorrow satisfies a psychological need for security. That makes sense.