This year’s menu focuses on light activities such as nibbles and cocktails to help bring back seduction, mystery, surprise and playfulness to your relationship.

This year’s menu focuses on light activities such as nibbles and cocktails to help bring back seduction, mystery, surprise and playfulness to your relationship.

As many couples report, the continuous lockdown has been eroding a sense of playfulness, surprise, intimacy and erotic fun. I have put together an aphrodisiac cocktail menu. Create your own cocktails from the list of ingredients and surprise each other. Have fun and drink responsibly.

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This menu was crafted with the aim of removing the focus from penetration – whilst paying attention to other areas in the body, especially the less familiar ones. Sides and dessert add a bit of fun and excitement to the overall experience. Bon appetit and a sexy festive season!
This menu was created to support couples who feel they need slow and easy aperitif and starter and some add some novelty to main course. Sides and dessert add a bit of fun and excitement to the overall experience. Bon appetit!

A relationship is not just an encounter between people; we shape others and others shape us, more so in a loving relationship.
Albert Camus phrased it beautifully when he wrote that “if those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them … they could perceive what they have made of us”.
…Ubuntu is a Zulu concept meaning humanity, it is often translated as I am because we are.
Although, a much broader idea than how I use it here, it made me think about what it means to be an individual in a meaningful relationship – by meaningful I mean a relationship that influences and shapes the idea of who I am as a person.
To me, this is how two (or more) separate ‘I’s make a ‘we’ and how in turn, a strong ‘we’ will nurture a person’s sense of who he or she is.
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Because I find it a richer way to engage with the erotic and sexual in us and in our romantic relationships. Yes, we can ask someone to have sex with us and they may say yes or no but this to me is a narrow conversation; a request misses the liveliness, excitement and anticipation that are part of flirting, being curious, imaginative and express what we like or dislike and share fantasies.
Seduction goes beyond consent and refusal, it invites us to be playful, a deep emotion that is often neglected in adulthood.
Seduction invites both (or more) partners to
…Here is a quote that made me think of the meaning of commitment and responsibility in relationships, regardless of status, married or not, same sex or heterosexual
“The job of the wife is to make a man of the boy she married; it is the job of the husband to make a woman of the girl he married”.
The way to do accomplish this is to behave as if they already are.
This takes me back to the words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you
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