  Consider: If someone is intimidated, they are made to suffer intimidation against their will. If someone is intimated , would they not be suffering intimacy, also against their will? I find it interesting, in that context, to take a look at some of the effects of such activity, as explained in common American by the Thesaurus of most Scumsoft products. Write 'intimated' into any Word document, use the Thesaurus (shift-F7), and be amazed at the effects of being made intimate... One no longer has to question why the logic of men often goes to greath lengths to avoid such conditions, as oulined within the very nature of our language. 
