In the second privacy state, intimacy, (Westin, 1967) the individual is acting as part of a small group that claims and is allowed to exercise seclusion so that it may achieve a close, relaxed, and frank relationship between two or more individuals. Typical units of intimacy are husband and wife, the family, a friendship circle, or a work clique. Whether
close contact brings relaxed relations or abrasive hostility depends on the personal interaction of the members, but without intimacy a basic need of human contact would not be met. Again such interaction is made possible through controlling visual and other types of sensory informational flow through the use of barriers, sound-deadening materials, and
other assorted environmental props.