Consensual greetings from Amsterdam! It’s been a while! Welcome to LVRNSFRNDS Courrier, a newsletter featuring must-read content for your modern brain. I try to make this one of the best newsletters you get so please send feedback!
💡 Interesting stuff
Thought you'd like to read these, I did.
Key concepts - Introducing the Relationship Escalator: What It Is and How to Get Off It - Ever wonder why do we have so many traditions and rituals that determine rites of passage in life? What about playing the accordion instead of taking the escalator?
Dating - Dating app usage is changing for the better as the pandemic rages on - Studies show dating apps users take it more seriously: operating a shift from hookup culture to more intentional dating. Is this something you’ve noticed yourself?
Legend - Romantic compatibility myths that could be harming our relationships - Could a misunderstanding be responsible for the downfall of so many modern relationships? Featuring the amazing Dr. Meg-John Barker!
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🌹 Antecedently
Previously at LVRSNFRNDS.
Salon - Recently our peer-support live convos have been addressing questions such as ‘how to do safer hookups in a global pandemic?’, ‘how do you build a warm social life in a small place?’ and ‘how to live with sex aversion?’
Campfire - Our weekly open forum welcomed another glorious Sex Toy Party (ie adult toys show and tell) with special guest Poppy Scarlett Lepora, founder of online boutique Self&More (LVRSNFRNDS members enjoy 10% off!).
Backstage - We’ve been working like crazy on many topics like improving our online rendezvous and kickstarting the development of our own community app. Oh and here is a fun question prompts generator we’ve built for our weekly 🍸 Happy Hour.
📽 Cinéma cinéma
Because that’ll make a great convo starter.
One thing leading to another, Salon’s topic had us think about 101 Reykjavík (2000) directed by Baltasar Kormákur. Highly recommended by the team!
Hlynur, a 30-year-old unemployed slacker, lives with his mother and spends his time drinking and watching porn. Until one day his mother invites her flamenco teacher Lola to spend Christmas at their home, and Hlynur’s fantasy life comes alive…
Source MUBI (LVRSNFRNDS members enjoy 30 days of MUBI - free!)
📣 Coming soon
Just in case you’re considering joining us!
Don’t miss our Open House edition of 🏕 Campfire next week! If you’re not a member, this is a unique chance to catch a glimpse of LVRSNFRNDS. Thing is: you need to be invited by a member, so email me if you want in, I’m a member duuuuh…
🤯 Mind-blown
I can’t stop thinking about this...
What would David Attenborough do? - Did you know that the New Zealand bird of the year competition has intensified following a vote-rigging scandal involving an adult toy store endorsing a small polyamorous sexually fluid bird with unusually large testes? Did I just write this? Yes I did…
Now try to forget about it. I can’t.
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This was brought to you by Sophie Mona Pagès (she/they), founder of LVRSNFRNDS. All things modern relationships. Made in Morocco. Designed in France. Based in Amsterdam, for now. Josh said about me ‘every time she opens her mouth, the world becomes a better place.’ Let’s make each of your relationships a better place, one conversation at a time. You can find me elsewhere on Instagram and Twitter.