However, for millennia, the sexual archetype has been split: It is worshiped for its powers of creating life, and it is damned for its powers of connecting us to the shadowy realms of the body and instincts. Therefore, sexual shadows pervade our intimacies. Eros, the god of love, opens the floodgates of desire and shuts them just as rapidly. Or he

the erotic is one of the locations where tenderness lives.

Don’t just touch her skin—bring all of your awareness and feeling to your fingers as they caress her. Don’t just kiss her—allow your lips and tongue to sense her mouth fully.