Psychology Today | 03.11.2026 17:50
“It turned out that the most expensive thing that people could purchase at a legal brothel was intimacy. The Girlfriend Experience.” Justin Garcia, director of the Kinsey Institute, discussed the intriguing findings of his research at a Nevada brothel during a podcast interview. The discussion carries on: “if we could just define quickly—so now we're talking about intimacy—it is, in a nutshell, the experience of closeness, of feeling and being seen, heard and known.”
