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Level 1 Intimacy
Affection and sweet, low-description kisses.
- Holding hands and affectionate touching
- Compliments and confessing love
- Tender embraces, cuddling, blushing and sighing
- Fade to black if married
- Past encounters only referred to, never described
Level 2 Intimacy
Clear attraction and deeper kisses, lightly described.
- Touch that signals attraction
- Long, deeper kisses, lightly descriptive
- Feeling warm and flushed
- Desire thought or spoken about, never described
- Fade to black for established relationships
Level 3 Intimacy
Heated make-outs, still nothing explicit.
- French kissing described
- Make-out sessions, more frantic, some loss of control
- His shirt may come off, but nothing else
- Bedroom scenes are interrupted or fade to black
- Fade to black even for married couples
Swearing, innuendo, violence and trigger warnings are listed on every book too. See the full level definitions
Intimacy level guide created by Michelle Pennington of The Writing Gals.
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