Sacred Pleasure

[Guest guest]

I read this excerpt this morning over breakfast and wanted to share

with the group. This is from Riane Eisler's book Sacred Pleasure:

Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body - New Paths to Power and

Love.

 

"Is it really possible for us to construct a society in which our

yearning for caring connection, for the unfolding of our higher

selves through physical and spiritual union with another being - in

short, for love - can be socially supported rather than distorted

and repressed? I believe it is. But I am also convinced that if we

are to construct a society where sex will be linked not with

violence and domination but with the truly erotic - with the life-

and-pleasure-giving powers within us and around us in the world - we

need to fully extricate ourselves from all that has for so long

unconsciously bound us to painful and unhealthy myths and

realities. We need an understanding of what I have here called the

politics of the body, and of how this relates to what has

conventionally been defined as political. We need to better

understand how and why domination and violence have been eroticized

adn even, under the guise of spirituality, sanctified. Most

important, we need to begin reconstructing not only sexuality and

spirituality but all aspects of our lives - since...how sexuality is

constructed differs greatly in the context of a partnership or

dominator society."