@maxdancona,
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Would you agree the opposite is true?
Intimacy does not satisfy the need for sex and that many mistake the need for sex for the need for intimacy.
Sometimes what a person really needs is just sex.
That requires a more nuanced reply.
To the extent that people often mistake the need for intimacy for the need for sex, yes, filling the need for intimacy can eliminate that misinterpreted need for sex.
The need for sex is a biological function of hormones and is real but if you are close enough to another person to engage in sex, it seems a crying shame that you don't take the opportunity to be intimate as well. Once you have enjoyed them together, it's hard for me to imagine wanting just sex.
I have no moral objections to paying for sex with a prostitute or sex with multiple people, but without intimacy, I just ain't interested. Its comparatively boring and not worth the hassles.