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Purpose This paper aims to investigate the mediating effect of brand love on purchase intention and word-of-mouth through mystery, sensuality and intimacy as brand image dimensions in the context of neo-luxury brands. It also explores the moderating effect of duration and intensity of consumer-brand relationships on brand image dimensions. Design/methodology/approach The data collection was done via an online survey of a representative group of Millennials. Data analysis was performed using structural equation modeling and multi-group analysis. Findings The paper suggests that brand love mediates the relationship between brand image, purchase intention and word-of-mouth for both Apple and Michael Kors brands. This study also identifies differences in the effects of intimacy, sensuality and mystery on brand love. Additionally, it is demonstrated that the moderation effect of intensity and duration of consumer-brand relationships varies among the two neo-luxury brands. Research limitations/implications Further research should aim at investigating other categories of products and services in the field of neo-luxury, as this study focus on fashion and mobile brands. Other antecedents and outcomes of brand love should also be evaluated, as well as other moderating variables. Originality/value This paper contributes to the fast-growing consumer-brand relationships literature by exploring the role of brand love in the context of the emergent neo-luxury paradigm. It also intends to provide a better understanding of how to build and nurture an effective brand image through a multidisciplinary approach that combines mystery, sensuality and intimacy.

This daring, intensely personal book challenges both conventional and feminist ideas about beauty by asking us to take pleasure in beauty without shame, and to see and feel the erotic in everyday life. Bringing together her varied experiences as a poet, art historian, bodybuilder, and noted performance artist, Joanna Frueh shows us how to move beyond society's equation of youth with beauty toward an aesthetic for the fully erotic human being. A lush combination of autobiography, theory, photography, and poetry, this book continues to develop the ideas about the erotic, beauty, older women, sex, and pleasure that Frueh first addressed in Erotic Faculties. Monster/Beauty examines these issues using a provocative, often explicit, set of examples. Frueh admiringly looks at the bodies and mindsets of midlife female bodybuilders, rethinks the vampire, and revises our ideas about traditional models of beauty, such as Aphrodite. Above all, she boldly brings her personal experience into the text, weaving her reflections on female sensuality with contemporary theory. These linked essays are as much a performance as they are a discussion, breaking down the barriers between the personal and the academic, and the erotic and the intellectual. Frueh writes passionately and beautifully, and the result is a much-needed exploration of beauty myths and taboos.

Sensuality is a figure of speech and a method of illustration in literary works, holding special significance in Persian language and literature. In this figure, one sensory state is intertwined with the methods and means of another, resulting in deviation. Saeb Tabrizi, as the most prominent and prolific poet of the Indian style, employed a diverse range of sensuality in his poetry. This approach not only enhanced the unique beauty of the Isfahani or Indian style but also contributed to linguistic, semantic, and aesthetic developments and influences in his work, widely, in Persian poem. In the current study, we focused on the various types of Sensuality in Saeb Tabrizi's sonnets using a descriptive analytics method and to examine the method and extent to which this figure of speech is employed in his poetry. The findings indicate that Saeb Tabrizi's Sensuality, both in terms of the combination of senses and concepts, exemplifies the Indian style clearly. Furthermore, the integration of Indian style, and applying this Sensuality with other figures of speech—such as symmetry, metaphor, irony, particularly allegory—has not only enhanced the imagery in Saeb's poetry but has also contributed to the coherence and beauty of his words.

Sensuality, an essential component of sexuality, is the enjoyment, expression, or pursuit of physical and sexual pleasure or satisfaction. Sensuality expression of women over 50 is under-researched and often ignored, making it difficult to have a scientific basis to develop age-appropriate healthy-ageing programmes for this group in Nigeria. An exploratory study was conducted to explore the lived experiences of the expression of sensuality of Nigerian women over 50 and the meaning they attach thereto. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis approach was used to collect and analyze data from 17 female teachers from three public secondary schools in Osun state, Nigeria, to represent a homogenous group of professional women over the age of 50. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to obtain qualitative data that was thematically analyzed. Four superordinate themes emerged: 'Self-reinvention to camouflage ageing realities for sensuality expression'; 'Embracing own sensuality'; 'Yearning for old self'; and 'Loss of interest in romantic relationships', with various subordinate themes. These finding provide the basis to develop age-appropriate healthy-ageing programmes for this group, and a baseline for further sexual health research among this group of women in Nigeria, who are often overlooked or considered asexual due to their being beyond the reproductive age.

The aim of this essay is to offer a gastrocritical analysis of Emil Brumaru's poetry, taking into consideration the symbolism of fruits, vegetables, dairy products, spices and food in general. The four main parts of the essay are based on the sensuality of the fruits, on the memories brought up by food, on dreams stirred up by spices and on the autochtonous place described by the traditional \"zacusca\". These, all together, will prove the fact that the gastronomical references in Brumaru's poetry are full of connotations and this is what we will try to identify by the interdisciplinar approach.

Background The purpose of this study was to examine the perceived influence of cannabis on sexual functioning and satisfaction. This study used Kaplan’s and Masters and Johnson’s sexual response cycle (desire, excitement, orgasm, plateau, resolution) and included satisfaction to complete the sexual response cycle. Given increased attention in the research literature to the potential benefits of cannabis and the lack of research on the sexual benefits of cannabis use, the current study was completed. Methods Data were collected using the online survey tool “Qualtrics” from a self-selected, convenience sample of adults over the age of 18 who reported previous cannabis use. The survey, developed by the researchers based on previous literature, included demographic questions followed by a scale to measure sexual functioning and satisfaction in relation to cannabis use ( α  = 0.897). Results The final sample was 811 participants ranging in age from 18 to 85 years old ( M  = 32.11). The majority of participants were identified as female ( n  = 536, 64.9%), White/Caucasian ( n  = 640, 78.9%), and college educated ( n  = 650, 80.1%). Almost 25% of the participants were identified as LGBTQIA+ ( n  = 187, 23.1%). Most of the participants reported being in a monogamous sexual relationship ( n  = 598, 73.7%). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t -tests, one-way ANOVA, and multiple regression. Age and gender were not found to have significant effects on cannabis use and sexual functioning and satisfaction. Over 70% of participants reported increased desire ( M  = 4.05, SD = 0.962) and orgasm intensity ( M  = 4.05, SD = 0.884). Participants who reported masturbating indicated that cannabis enhanced their pleasure while masturbating ( n  = 620, 62.5%). Participants also stated that cannabis enhanced their sense of taste ( n  = 583, 71.9%) and touch ( n  = 576, 71.0%). Discussion The results of this study contrast and establish new evidence within the literature. Demographic results indicate that the people who use cannabis are of a wide range of ages, from a variety of occupations, and have differing cannabis use preferences. The inclusion of LGBTQIA + respondents is a strength of this study. Overall, results indicated that both men and women perceived that cannabis use increased their sexual functioning and satisfaction, particularly increased desire and orgasm intensity. Conclusion This study updates the current literature on cannabis and sexuality and provides implications for improving sexual quality. Medical implications of this study include the possible use of cannabis for treating sexual dysfunctions, especially within women.

Much of the burgeoning literature on food in anthropology and related fields implicitly engages with issues of memory. Although only a relatively small but growing number of food-centered studies frame themselves as directly concerned with memory-for instance, in regard to embodied forms of memory-many more engage with its varying forms and manifestations, such as in a diverse range of studies in which food becomes a significant site implicated in social change, the now-voluminous body relating food to ethnic or other forms of identity, and invented food traditions in nationalism and consumer capitalism. Such studies are of interest not only because of what they may tell us about food, but moreover because particular facets of food and food-centered memory offer more general insights into the phenomenon of memory and approaches to its study in anthropology and related fields.

2323BlackLuna is an experimental moving image, embodied portal, honoring meditation with/in darkness, dark space. In this project, darkness serves as creative in/sight for the practice and spiritual processing of Black girl eroticism and love through dance and movement. 2323BlackLuna inundates the goings and magic of process, centering play within concepts of corporeality, liminality, and time-traveling. Alice Walker and Audre Lorde challenge, guide, and support the portal between the spiritual and the political, shaping the meditation of “love at its deepest meaning.” This work leans into Black girl imagination, contributing to Black girlhood studies, spirituality, performance, and visual arts epistemology. It is an ode to solitude; love as pleasure, a journey of the now, Black girl healing.