Posts tagged Sexuality

A rock in our path. To hurl ourselves upon this rock as though after a certain intensity of desire had been reached it could not exist any more. Or else to retreat as though we ourselves did not exist. Desire contains something of the absolute and if it fails (once its energy has been used up) the absolute is transferred to the obstacle. This produces the state of mind of the defeated, the oppressed.
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (timeimmemorial)

neverneverland

Unfortunately, the invisible motivation of desire is often shame. ~ü [Image: Julian Wasser Outside The Institute Of Oral Love & The Pussycat Theatre (1975)]

Unfortunately, the invisible motivation of desire is often shame.

~ü

[Image: Julian Wasser Outside The Institute Of Oral Love & The Pussycat Theatre (1975)]

silence-and-melody

Modesty and sexuality go hand in hand.  As does repression and ignorance. ~ü

Modesty and sexuality go hand in hand.  As does repression and ignorance.

~ü

nickdrake

I think it’s important to destroy “big” notions like woman, homosexual…. Things are never that simple. When they’re reduced to black-white, male-female categories, there’s an ulterior motive, a binary-reductionist operation meant to subjugate them. For example, you cannot qualify a love univocally. Love in Proust is never specifically homosexual. It always has a schizoid, paranoid component, a becoming-plant, a becoming-woman, a becoming-music.
“Becoming-Woman,” Félix Guattari

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I take the liberty of maintaining that without the art of ambiguity there is no real eroticism, and the stronger the ambiguity, the more powerful the excitement.  ~Milan Kundera [Image: Photographer Unknown]

I take the liberty of maintaining that without the art of ambiguity there is no real eroticism, and the stronger the ambiguity, the more powerful the excitement. 

~Milan Kundera

[Image: Photographer Unknown]

crackityjones77

To me, if sex is the creative force in the world, it must be nearest to the creative center of the world — whatever name you give to it. Creative energy must be closest to creation, to the creative source of it all. People should be taught the art of converting sexual energy into spiritual enlightenment. ~ Osho
To me, if sex is the creative force in the world, it must be nearest to the creative center of the world — whatever name you give to it. Creative energy must be closest to creation, to the creative source of it all. People should be taught the art of converting sexual energy into spiritual enlightenment.

~ Osho

thetemperamentalgoat

It is forbidden love, which can only be fulfilled outside of matrimony. This love for the Queen of Sheba, then, does not produce a child of flesh, but a child of spirit, or of the imagination. It is a fusion of opposing factors within the psyche of each of the lovers; it is a process of magical individuation. While it is true that  this love does not exclude physical love, the physical becomes transformed into ritual. — Miguel Serrano [Image: The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Edward Poynter (1890)]

It is forbidden love, which can only be fulfilled outside of matrimony. This love for the Queen of Sheba, then, does not produce a child of flesh, but a child of spirit, or of the imagination. It is a fusion of opposing factors within the psyche of each of the lovers; it is a process of magical individuation. While it is true that  this love does not exclude physical love, the physical becomes transformed into ritual.

— Miguel Serrano

[Image: The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Edward Poynter (1890)]

centuriespast

Even sticking to the higher plane of love, is it so very obvious that you can’t love more than one person? We seem to manage it with parental love (parents are reproached if they don’t at least pretend to love all their children equally), love of books, of food, of wine (love of Chateau Margaux does not preclude love of a fine Hock, and we don’t feel unfaithful to the red when we dally with the white), love of composers, poets, holiday beaches, friends … why is erotic love the one exception that everybody instantly acknowledges without even thinking about it? Why can a woman not love two men at the same time, in their different ways? And why should the two – or their wives — begrudge her this?
Richard Dawkins

unknowablewoman

Almost all sexual existence is beyond the physical/visual. ~ü [Poem: Buddy Wakefield]

Almost all sexual existence is beyond the physical/visual.

~ü

[Poem: Buddy Wakefield]

grammatolatry

EarthCircle Films is currently working on a film project that confronts common notions of beauty and acceptable sexual behavior.  As a culture, we need to continue to overcome our insecurities and become comfortable with this sacred and profound part of our existence. ~ü In “Imponderabilia” (1977) by Marina Abramovic two performers, both completely nude, stand in a doorway. The public must squeeze between them in order to pass. * Marina Abramovic (born November 30, 1946) is a New York-based Yugoslavian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s.

EarthCircle Films is currently working on a film project that confronts common notions of beauty and acceptable sexual behavior.  As a culture, we need to continue to overcome our insecurities and become comfortable with this sacred and profound part of our existence.

~ü

In “Imponderabilia” (1977) by Marina Abramovic two performers, both completely nude, stand in a doorway. The public must squeeze between them in order to pass.

* Marina Abramovic (born November 30, 1946) is a New York-based Yugoslavian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s.

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