Analog Mode for Intimacy

The world moves quickly. Faster than it used to and that our bodies were ever meant to.

So many of us wake up and immediately reach for messages, headlines, notifications, and fill our heads with someone else's thoughts. Our attention gets pulled outward in a hundred directions before we’ve had a moment to tune into ourselves. 

We often move through the day like that- forward and efficiently.. Slightly ahead of the moment we’re actually in. Our bodies keep up the best they can, but operating at that pace takes a toll on us. 

Intimacy moves at a frequency the body already understands. A frequency that slows down and participates with more presence. We like to call it analog intimacy. 

It’s that moment when the pace finally changes? When your mind softens its grip and your attention drops out of constant motion and settles somewhere quieter.

Our digital age speeds us up and fragments our attention. More is happening, yet we miss a lot of it. Analog experiences slow us down and reconnect us with our senses.

When we move away from an over stimulated frequency, fast paced lifestyle and start introducing a more connected and tender vibration, intimacy deepens. With ourselves. With our environment, friends and partners. 

We live in a maximalist society filled with the desire for more, more, and more.

But when something as primal as intimacy becomes crowded with more products, more toys, more techniques, more ideas, sometimes it can pull us away from the most essential part of intimacy- body connecting with body.

That’s not to say those things can’t create beautiful, fun, pleasurable experiences. They absolutely can. But they are not always the way or always the solution that we need. We are taught that more is the answer to fixing something or making it better. But what if more isn’t the answer? What if it’s actually less, stepping back, and simplifying? What if the change you’re actually looking for is in intention?

When used thoughtfully, products can help us tune into our natural pleasure rather than distract from it.

That’s the spirit behind Common Confidential.

Humans are hard wired for intimacy. We need to connect with one another, both, physically and emotionally. What’s so beautiful about being human is that we already possess everything we need in order to tap into that connection. 

But life, society, and business can often deter us from that source of connection. 

We designed our products to help remove distraction and create presence. 

No adding items into the mix just for the sake of it. We want to use a few tools to help our bodies slow down, stay present,  and engage in this beautifully human connection. 

Massage Butter...

brings the focus back to touching. No artificial irritants getting in the way of you and your partner’s sweet, smooth, skin on skin. Keep touching and moving with ease. 

The Intimate Blanket...

removes all that worry in the back of your mind about the sheets getting messy and having to do laundry later. Connection doesn’t get interrupted with worry, instead it dives deeper by staying present. 

Love Towels...

are meant to help you take care of each other during the afterglow. All that intimacy you just discovered gets to be explored even longer when you focus on the cuddling instead of the clean up. Slow down, linger for longer, and soak each other up. 

Going analog is all about removing the requirement for efficiency, doing more, and overthinking and, instead, inviting a slower more natural rhythm.

When intimacy is given the space to flow naturally, something shifts. The pace changes and your mind softens its grip. Attention drops out of the constant movement of the day and our thoughts settle somewhere quieter and into the body.

Putting the fast-paced digital world aside and allowing ourselves to step into this analog intimacy creates a moment for our bodies to return to their natural form.

A place where there is nothing to optimize or measure and no performance that steals from our primal pleasure. 

Analog intimacy pushes against the culture that constantly asks for more and offers something deeper. The slow unfolding of sensation, curiosity, and connection between bodies that are finally allowed to just be. 

Analog is touch, breath, sweet smells, soft fabric, good lighting, and the simple act of enjoying being together. We created these products to help you tune into those beautiful sensory moments and practice the art of enjoying your pleasure. 

When we allow ourselves to drop back into that rhythm, intimacy stops feeling like something we are trying to do well and starts feeling like the natural, present, humanistic instinct that it has always been. 

Let your body operate at a pace it naturally understands. In a fast paced, digital world, give intimacy the quiet and steadfast permission to be analog.