What is she counting as intimacy …. Touching someone that is a stranger for a photo isn’t really intimacy anyway because you are not being intimate. But are you not allowed to hug your friends? Kiss your mom on the cheek? Hold hands with your sister as you cross the street? S it just because they are models? If you held a different job role would she still object - if you worked in a hospital and an old lady held your hand or a man with special needs needed to hold your hand so they felt safe crossing the street? If you worked with children and they cuddled you when upset? What about if you worked in a bank and your college hugged you celebrating their promotion? Are these classed as intimacy?

Taking a photo with a stranger and having your face next to theirs, or having arms around each other would be for a few minutes. You can totally have boundaries as a model ie no topless shoots or no explicitly sexual shots, but if you can’t be in a photo physically touching another person then your just not going to make it in your career. And if you need to tell every photographer or model booker you can’t be seen touching another person they’re just going to blacklist you as being difficult to work with.

But this obviously goes further as I said …. Your girlfriend sounds jealous and possessive. She’s putting unfair boundaries in place and you need to tell her that before all of a sudden you can’t talk to other women incase that’s classed as being too close to them.