Twenty-five years after it first caused a splash in the scientific and literary worlds, Intimate Behavior is still one of the best chronicles of human intimacy. With a masterful and entertaining eye, Desmond Morris, bestselling author of The Naked Ape and The Human Zoo, analyzes the roots of human intimacy, from the handshake through the twelve stages that people pass through on their way to the total sexual embrace. Morris contends that the months just before and after birth are when the seeds of intimacy are planted and are critical to development. From the loving attention of the mother, the child learns and responds with intimate gestures of his or her own. He argues that human adults follow certain patterns of intimate behaviour that are based on these infant experiences for their entire lives. In addition to sexual intimacy, Morris discussed social intimacy, intimacy substitutes, object intimacy, and self-intimacy. Complete with a new preface by the author, Intimate Behavior is a provocative view of humans need to touch and to be touched, to love and to be loved. At a crucial moment, a gentle embrace can still do more good than a thousand earnest discussions. Despite all our social and technological advances, the primeval body language of love still remains the most potent force we have for the expression of feelings of comfort and caring. Desmond Morris, from his new Preface

作者德斯濛德•莫利斯簡介：

德斯濛德•莫利斯何許人？他是英國著名動物學傢、生物人類學傢，生物進化科普作傢、電視節目撰稿人和主持人、藝術傢，曆任倫敦動物園哺乳動物館館長、現代美術研究所所長、牛津大學特聘研究員。

莫利斯，這位終身與動物為伍的牛津大學博士，一生都在行走。他用一隻眼睛觀察動物，用另一隻眼睛審視人類。1967年，他用“裸猿三部麯”——《裸猿》《人類動物園》《親密行為》嚮人類宣稱：人，不是從天而降的天使，而是由地而生的猿猴。

從《裸猿》三部麯起，他一共創作瞭十來種著作，被翻譯成多種語言，且長銷不衰。

譯者何道寬簡介：

何道寬，深圳大學英語及傳播學教授，享受政府津貼的專傢，曾任中國跨文化交際研究會副會長，現任中國傳播學會副理事長、深圳市翻譯協會高級顧問，從事文化學、人類學、傳播學研究20餘年，著譯逾1 000萬字。著作有《中華文明頡要》（漢英雙語版）、《創意導遊》（英文版）；電視教學片有《實用英語語音》。譯作逾40種，要者有：《思維的訓練》《文化樹》《超越文化》《理解媒介》等。