#caress

[big-beau-thembo]

Every so often a breeze from the air conditioning will feel like a hand gently caressing my arm and god I wish I were being held rn 😩

[y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff]

Caress Moisturizing Body Bar

1995

Found on Ebay, seller cjmh2021

[y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff]

Caress Luscious Nectar Body Spray

2003

Found on Ebay, seller croquis.and.toile

[pearlsforthesoulblog-blog]

Whistle while you work Row row row your boat you gotta have heart If I had a hammer

Row Your Boat Gently — The Hidden Cure for Stress, Anger, and Losing Yourself

[y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff]

Caress Moisturizing Body Wash Starter Kit

1995

Found on Ebay, seller toyfamilytoo

[mhwack]

"Yes, one will have to talk about the caress, which cannot be reduced to simple contact, be it contact with the other, nor to any of the other experiences that have been evoked, before and after "stroking." The caress gives or takes. And/or it gives and takes. In giving it takes; it gives to take; it takes up giving-what one calls pleasure a little hastily. In pleasure, the caress besieges us, it invests us with a nontheoretical and besetting question, with a worry constitutive of pleasure itself: "What is this pleasure? What is that? Where does it come from? From the other or from me? Am I taking it? Am I giving it? Is it the other who gives it to me? Or takes it from me? The time of this pleasure-is it that I am giving it myself?" And so forth. And if all these hypotheses were not contradictory or incompatible, how would one need to think them? Declare them? Even confess them? Confessing them and touching them as the stakes of touch itself, as if the grammar of the response to acknowledged gratitude ("Thank you for what you give me") remained undecidable ("But no, I'm not giving you anything, I'm giving myself . . ."

Derrida, On Touching

[y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff]

Caress Wild Blossom Gift Set

2001

Found on Ebay, seller amethystpurplerose