There are intimate relationships of various kinds; there are best friends that come into your life and stay forever, and there are loves at the different stages of adulthood, there is an intimacy with family at all different levels. These relationships are as precious as they are deep. They are as deep as they contain trust. That takes us up against the concept of promiscuity. Promiscuity has about it a kind of randomness, a casualness of intermingling that chokes actual intimacy. It is intimacy that makes a strong marriage, friendship, or even business partnership.Many of us consider our financial specifics quite close in, not to be randomly shared, and therefore, intimate.

So a marriage or life partnership to be strong and creative is most valuable to the partners, and to society and the world, when it is committed and monogamous, since at that point it is most secure. Not just that each partner feels secure, but the people around them can count on them as a unit of society, which is how we put together a culture and a civilization. This is a very basic concept, that of being faithful to our sexual partner. In discussing this, L. Ron Hubbard says,"Sex is a big step on the way to happiness and joy. There is nothing wrong with it if it is followed with faithfulness and decency." www.thewaytohappiness.org
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