Wymiary intymności w związkach nieheteronormatywnych

Abstract

The aim of the article is to identify and describe the construction of intimacy as a social phenomenon in terms of advanced modernity. The paper attempts to present a variety of conceptual perspectives as well as a range of ideas about intimacies in both public and academic debates. Much of the literature on intimacy involves the taken-for-granted ideological assumption that intimacy can properly work only and exclusively in heterosexual relationships. The main part of the article focuses on the description of qualitative research into the uniqueness of the experience of intimacy in non-heteronormative relationships.