Pheromones & Romance

The course of true love never did run smooth, as Shakespeare noted. True love equates to intimacy, and despite its sexual connotations, intimacy is definitely something more. It’s not just “the play of touch and beating hearts and breath, and pleasuring to take and pleasures give.” Improving intimacy in a relationship can be quite difficult [...]

Men have their weak sides that they try not to show. They are scared to let their guards down and let other people see who they really are. Since prehistoric times, men have been putting lots of effort in maintaining their macho image which leads some men into having a fear of physical intimacy. In [...]

A woman I know was expounding on how men should talk about their intimacy issues, even if it hurts their egos to do so. “A lot easier for you to say than for us to do,” I thought. The fear of intimacy in men has come from lifelong training not to talk about feelings — [...]