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The freedom of the erotic

  • Writer: Monique Prado
    Monique Prado
  • Feb 4, 2022
  • 2 min read

To investigate the potency of the erotic is to get freedom.


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Audre Lorde teaches us about the power of the erotic as something that is intimately connected to our emotional, psychic and physical side. The erotic is contact with what is most profound in our desires. It's pulse. It's subversion. It's desire. Eroticizing yourself is getting out of the patriarchy trap and accessing the feminine energy, the creative and pure side that the body holds. To eroticize yourself, you must know you intimately very well which means that It is transforming oneself from oneself to then vibrate in the collective way.


Sexuality is constancy. It operates within itself to afterwards be in the dimension of the other.


I cannot link my desires to the desires of others because sexuality is, above all, an inside movement.


Also, it is good to remember that the body is just a piece of the immensity of other senses. When I make myself available to smells, touch and feel different tastes to pay attention on what this energetic erotic brings me, I get to know myself.


The other it's not the center, they are only an extension of my desire. If I place them in the condition of object, the erotic gives way to control, abuse, the fragmentation of being.


That's why the body sexualized by the somebody's perspective become oppressed and punished because usually those ones who knows about themselves know how their desire work as well. They know how to access their own emotions over their own pleasures and sorrows. Thus, the abusers cross the erotic because they are unable to intimately access themselves, so they destabilize who has been accessed its freedom to try to oppress them.


There is no permanence in this domination unless eroticization matches desires between the dominant and the dominated, so that they are on the same frequency and agreement each other.


The erotic breaks domination when it operates in an instinctive-consensual way, in order to insert into material life the cathartic metamorphosis of the freedom of jouissance itself, so that fantasy becomes transgression precisely because it shift the collective.


The jouissance then leaves the pathological narcissism and becomes a collective ritual towards healing.


Finally, as long as the body is the only platform for eroticization, society will be in deep pain because only hegemonic bodies will be allowed to enjoy it.

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