Why is it more violating to grab a stranger’s thigh or stroke their face than it is to grab their forearm? Why is it worse to read someone’s dream journal without permission than it is to read their bird watching field notes? Why are gestation mandates so incredibly intrusive? Intimacy is key to understanding these cases, and to explaining many of our most stringent rights. I present two ways of thinking about intimacy, Relationship-First Accounts and the Intimate Zones Account. I argue that only the Intimate Zones Account lets us cohesively understand intimacy’s importance, and the scope of our intimate rights. I characterize our intimate zones as meeting the Hiddenness and Importance Conditions. A feature’s meeting these conditions makes it a locus of special vulnerability by which our persons can be fundamentally altered. This special vulnerability explains why our duties to respect the intimate boundaries of others are so strict.

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 什么是亲密关系？


为什么抓住陌生人的大腿或抚摸他们的脸比抓住他们的前臂更令人反感呢？为什么未经允许阅读某人的梦想日记比阅读他们的观鸟田野笔记更糟糕？为什么妊娠授权如此具有侵入性？亲密关系是理解这些案例的关键，也是解释我们许多最严格权利的关键。我提出了两种关于亲密关系的思考方式，关系优先账户和亲密区域账户。我认为，只有 Intimate Zones Account 才能让我们有凝聚力地理解亲密关系的重要性，以及我们私密权利的范围。我将我们的私密区域描述为满足隐藏性和重要性条件。满足这些条件的特征使其成为一个特殊脆弱性的场所，我们的人可以通过它从根本上被改变。这种特殊的脆弱性解释了为什么我们尊重他人私密界限的义务如此严格。