{"id":1901,"date":"2013-06-14T07:14:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T07:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2013\/06\/14\/this-is-one-reason-why-the-erotic-is-so-feared-and\/"},"modified":"2013-06-14T07:14:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T07:14:52","slug":"this-is-one-reason-why-the-erotic-is-so-feared-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/06\/14\/this-is-one-reason-why-the-erotic-is-so-feared-and\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

This is one reason why the erotic is so feared and so often relegated to the bedroom alone when it is recognized at all. For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy that we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The erotic as Power<\/em>, 1984. (via yvonneemilie<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is one reason why the erotic is so feared and so often relegated to the bedroom alone when it is recognized at all. For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-uF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1104,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/07\/26\/the-life-and-adventures-of-fanny-hill-memoirs-of\/","url_meta":{"origin":1901,"position":0},"title":"The Life and Adventures of Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Women of Pleasure)","author":"monochromist","date":"July 26, 2013","format":"link","excerpt":"The Life and Adventures of Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Women of Pleasure)anonymoushowl: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure\u00a0(popularly known as\u00a0Fanny Hill) is an\u00a0erotic\u00a0novel\u00a0by\u00a0John Cleland\u00a0first published in England in\u00a01748. 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