ENDERNESS

There is not only need for tenderness, there is also need to be tender for the other: we shut ourselves up in a mutual kindness, we return to the root of all relations, where need and desire join. The tender gesture says: ask me anything that can put your body to sleep, but also do not forget that I desire you--- a little, lightly, without trying to size anything right away.


DESIRE

In order to show you where your desire is, it is enough to forbid it to you a little.
This would be a structure of the “successful” couple: a little prohibition, a good deal of play; to designate desire and then to leave it alone, like those obliging natives who show you the path but don’t insist on accompanying you on your way.

Barthes