ABSTRACT
The word savoring conveys metaphorically a search for the delectable, delicious, almost gustatory delights of the moment. Sexual savoring often occurs in the sensuous enjoyment of one's own body or in looking at the female or male body, or in touching or being touched in a sensuous way. A relatively new concept that relates closely to savoring is the notion of time work, or the management of temporal experience. Characterized by purposeful, agentic self-determination, time work has been defined as individual or interpersonal efforts to create or regulate particular kinds of temporal experience. In explicating the nature of savoring, people use three interrelated conceptual terms, the definitions of which are important to specify and distinguish clearly and precisely. These key terms are: savoring experiences, savoring processes, and savoring responses or strategies. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
