This she did from a thoroughly secular viewpoint.
Human intimacy involves the mutual understanding of persons.
It does not necessarily involve genital sexual expression. Although Fields stopped short of lobbying for a return to sexual abstinence before marriage, her insight about the human need for intimacy and the shallow solutions which society offers is thought provoking. One only needs to peruse the magazines in the check-out lines of our grocery stores to see bold headlines proclaiming that the passionate embrace yields instant intimacy. If we are to believe this trivia, people will be content and satisfied, if only they are sexually active. But here and there, as in Fields' column, an honest voice can be found.