[quote=@BrokenPromise] I always laugh when people say "I can't feel the intimacy of these characters when you fade to black." 
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That sounds like poorly or incompletely written "foreplay", right?  Because it [i]clearly[/i] isn't those people's need to read the blackened stuff...

On a more serious note... Yup, you can have intimacy between characters without having it result in intercourse, and you can have intercourse between characters without it demanding a [i]fade to black[/i]. You just have to consider how to go about writing it. After all, there's a difference between describing in detail the exact order of events as the two (or more) characters go about having intercourse and simply explaining that they had intercourse of the sexual kind, and that they found it really enjoyable.

Or to take it on a darker theme:
there's a difference between describing how a character was raped and simply saying the character was raped.