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.
Last month on @billmaher’s show @realtimers, I illuminated the difference between sexuality and eroticism, between a perfunctory act and the multi-sensory journey of pleasure.
Many of us, when it comes to sexuality, tend to do what we think we should do rather than what we’d like to be doing (and this is not just a... See more
estherperelofficialinstagram.comI 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.
Esther Perel • Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
Eroticism is cultivating pleasure for its own sake. It’s about bringing play, creativity, and adventure back into our lives. This doesn’t solely apply to sex but in all aspects of life.