Holden, the sixteen-year-old protagonist of JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, hates fakes. A fake is someone who lacks honesty or genuineness. A fake is someone who does not express his true motives. The fake says things to deceive people and then manipulate them to satisfy his hidden but real desires. The opposite of falsehood is the sincerity he sought to find in the people in his life story. As his teacher, Mr. Antolini, expresses it, Holden is troubled and "but I can very clearly see you dying nobly, one way or another, for some highly unworthy cause" (188). Holden is troubled and has a moral and spiritual degree. This article will discuss Caulfield's understanding of the fake and show how this understanding relates to Caulfield's sexual behavior. An important aspect of Holden's perspective on sincerity is that it is intrinsically linked to intimacy and sexuality. For Caulfield, falsehood is a barrier and obstacle to human intimacy and particularly sexual intimacy. Intimacy approaches the sacred and, therefore, sincerity, its guardian of the threshold, must be highly appreciated. The article demonstrates these positions using Caulfield's behavior and words regarding sexuality. In the book, the false general is embodied by Ernie, the pianist. The expected attention given to Ernie is scandalously disproportionate to his talent and worth. People in the nightclub crowd together and strain to get a glimpse of Ernie, who has a spotlight trained on him and a huge mirror positioned so everyone can see his face - but not his fingers - as he plays. As Caulfield described it: “It must have been something sacred, for God's sake, when he sat down at the piano. No one is that good” (84). Holden said... in the middle of the paper ......or he was afraid of entering the adult world because according to him if he had sex with someone he would never become a child again. He is afraid of forcing himself on a woman and thinks that both people should have the same opinion before doing so. He wants there to be clearly sincere motivations on both sides, without ambiguity. When a woman tells him to stop, he stops. As Holden points out, “Most guys don't” (92) Most guys don't stop because they don't care about the woman's true desires. They only care about their own selfish desires. Prevailing over the wants and needs of another to satisfy your own desires is spiritual and emotional rape; a violation of sincerity and intimacy; it is the essence of falsehood: not caring how others feel as long as you stroke your own ego. True intimacy depends on sincerity and respect for the other's wishes.