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We are in a time of fertile ground for learning how we align our pleasures with our values, decolonizing our bodies and longings, and getting into a practice of saying an orgasmic yes together, deriving our collective power from our felt sense of pleasure.
adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
There is a balance women must strike between dropping the sexual constraints imposed on us by several millennia of patriarchal oppression and maintaining boundaries grounded in self-care.
Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
The learning that is fundamental to Christian formation is affective and erotic, a matter of “aiming” our loves, of orienting our desires to God and what God desires for his creation.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
as a culture, we have advanced in terms of personal freedom, sexual equality, and social rights, but we have remained spiritually thwarted and afraid. For the sake of individual autonomy and social fairness, with only good intentions in mind, we have erroneously begun to deny, smooth out, and neutralize our masculine and feminine differences. In do
... See moreDavid Deida • The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire (20th Anniversary Edition)
Neoliberalism, with its uninhibited ego- and achievement-impulses, constitutes a social order from which eros has vanished entirely. The society of positivity, from which negativity has disappeared, is a society of bare life, which is dominated exclusively by the concern “to make sure of survival”22 in the face of discontinuity. This is a slave’s l
... See moreByung-Chul Han • The Agony of Eros
Recognizing the power of the erotic within our lives can give us the energy to pursue genuine change within our world, rather than merely settling for a shift of characters in the same weary drama.
adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
Sex can teach us to relish the tumult of true equality. It can show us that the self need not remain imprisoned behind the eyes. And it can prove, if anything can at this late date, that there is a realm beyond rational exchange, a realm in which the profligacy of play is its own recompense.
Becca Rothfeld • All Things Are Too Small
