PS

I will give you a real life example.

When my first baby was born, I was staying with friends. The family had grown children as well as teenagers still living at home. So, a lot of children. The woman - the mother of those children - gave me a little cradle-type black box in which she used to keep her oldest son when he was a baby (her oldest son was one year older than me, so the cradle was old, but sturdy - she bought it from a British company called "mothercare" that sells high quality equipment). There was also some kind of a receiving blanket to cover the newborn.

When the woman gave me all of that, she looked at me and must have noticed the fright in my eyes - I was afraid that the baby would suffocate. She then said: "Take the blanket, press it against your face, and breathe through it. See - you can breathe through it. Just as you can breathe through it, so can the baby. The baby won't suffocate."

I did not tell her that I was afraid that the baby would suffocate - she read my fright on my face, because our faces express our thoughts and feelings, even when we try to cover such thoughts and feelings by appearing nonchalant and remote. Of course, she must have not only read my fright, but, quite possibly, related her own experience from back then - maybe she, too, was frightened that her first son might suffocate, so she easily recognized the fright in me.

This is an example of reading one's mind in a non-sexual realm.

There are many more.

Apparently, and this is tangentially related, from what I have been hearing and reading, people on the autistic spectrum cannot read minds as easily and cannot express themselves as easily either. And, there are skills training classes for them, as attempts to teach them both to express themselves and to read the nonverbal expressions of others. So it is generally accepted that it is possible to read someone else's mind at least to some extent - otherwise those skills training would have been nonsensical.