ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ways in which women employ material culture in their everyday creation of intimacy. It discusses erotic affinities via cultural repertoires, especially those draws upon the use of material culture. The chapter explains a view of physical intimacy of performers as both knowledgeable agents and assertive consumers. It presents the complexity in relation to sexual closeness, and it looks at how women configure intimacy. It focuses on how miscellaneous devices engage in the preparation of erotic episodes. It highlights the significance of consumption in the production of intimacy and its place in relation to both the economy and politics of domestic consumption. It focuses on how the women orchestrate intimate events via reliance on material goods, and in particular the ways in which a group of middle class women re-create personal versions of intimacy, and sustain collective meanings of femininity, romance and sexual respectability.
