From Esther Perel's Blog - Letters From Esther #37: Eroticism is an Art. But It’s Also a Practice.
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From Esther Perel's Blog - Letters From Esther #37: Eroticism is an Art. But It’s Also a Practice.
Saved by Rosario
Eroticism is one of the few forms of play permitted to adults. It occurs in a world parallel to the habitual one; it frees us to adopt new personas; it has a tendency to generate enduring communities whose members are "apart together" even when its excesses have come to an end; and, finally, it is dispensable and therefore indispensable.
I sensed that they had a deep understanding of eroticism. Though I doubt that they ever used this word, they embodied its mystical meaning as a quality of aliveness, a pathway to freedom—not just the narrow definition of sex that modernity has assigned to it.