
The other day, I got an email from a reporter from a national women’s magazine who wanted to get a few unsexy facts about sex. Who cares, I wanted to ask?
I don’t think I can bear another article that tells us that sex: increases your heart rate, decreases colesterol, builds muscles, burns calories, relaxes you, releases important chemicals and gives you a nice healthy blush. Is sex another healthy thing on your to do list?
Cosmopolitan headlines like “10 sexy ways to get him into bed” or “10 sexy ways to keep him there” make me sad. Ten tricks to get something. How many times do women need to be reminded that the sex is about manipulating and the only one worth satisfying is him? How many times do women need to hear that ultimately, they are inadequate?
I’m fatigued with a culture that has cajoled and ridiculed us into believing things like:
Regular sex is a sign that I’m a healthy, successful person.
Sexual satisfaction is a matter of mastery of skills.
Something’s wrong with me if I can’t orgasm, ejaculate, remain hard for hours.
Only sexy, beautiful people have sexy, beautiful sex.
And in California, add to the list: Not into polyamory, threesomes, sex clubs, fetiches, one taste om-ing, tantric orgasm in a room full of people watching and various kinky explorations? Good night, and Good Luck! You haven’t lived.
Sex has become so, uhm… functional, scientific, and utterly unsexy.
Please world, can we uplevel our conversations a bit?

Sex is the most primal life force of the core of the universe and our being. It’s powerful. It’s creative. It’s untameable. Which is why conspiracies have formed around sex since day one.
Sex corrupts. Long time back, religious leaders made sex sinful as a way of controlling the masses. Adam and Eve got too intimate with the snake of sexual power, were kicked out of paradise, one could hope, to experience this co-creative power in all its glorious ways.
Sex sells. Some thousand + years later, media, marketing and ads made sex evocative, promising lusty feelings, sexual success and skyrocketing self-esteem if, by the way, we eat, drink, dress and smear their producsts all over ourselves. Feeling good yet?
Sex manifests. In new age circles and at the cusp of a new collective consciousness, sex magic is now seen as the orgasmic gasoline with which you can manifest your heart’s (divine) desire. The secret just doesn’t cut it anymore. The new kid on the block is intentional orgasm. Forget about your lover, but keep your goals at the top of your lungs as you scream out your orgasm. Or better, share an intention and ride it to the top of the orgasmic wave. Oh my! What do you desire? A new job? World peace?
Meanwhile, most of us have sex to procreate, commune, feel intimate, love and just enact and enjoy this beautiful physique we’ve been gifted. Some of us have too much sex (obsession). Some of us have too little sex. Some of us experience sex that’s over the moon. Others experience sad and empty sex. Most of us experience a bit of both.
In a world where everything is sexualized instead of humanized, I worry that we’ve lost touch with the sweet eroticism in life. To me, being human, life itself is erotic. It’s a being alive to the magical, pulsating, ecstatic body and universe we live and experience through. It’s a way of being in the world in a sensory and tactile way, leading and relating to others with your energy awareness and senses.
But you may not notice. Because you are not home much. In your body. In your flesh. In your senses. And you may be a little afraid of the sexual, creative fire that lives at the core of your being and what it might do, should you fan the flames. Will you explode? Kick your lover out? Binge on sex? Follow your dream?
The inclination of (our) nature is to (pro)create. The bees and blooms kind of thing is literally taking place all around you, all the time. It’s taking place within, continuously creating and destroying our bodies and being. Sexual communion with another human being is simply an expression of this entirely creative process. You attract, build up heat, enter one another, explode, and die. A life and death dance. The inclination to co-create is so strong and it is not for nothing that condoms were invented.
Life is fecund and sex is merely a facet of life’s eroticism.
Perfunctory or performance oriented sex with release as goal, no longer seems so interesting to me.
I know my sexuality is the central life force within me. It fuels everything from how I show up in the world, to my creativity, to play, love making and communing with the divine.
Today, I savor the richness of all experience, using my senses, using my breath, using my imagination and movement to fan the flames. Not necessarily to make love, alone or with someone else. But to fan my creative fire, to light up my body, to heighten the energetic frequency and feel utterly present in my body and being. I like to feel my heart beat pulse through my veins. I like to feel my skin erect with desire. I like to feel the sun kiss my face and the wind caress my skin. I am constantly engaged in foreplay with life, and on good days, this results in joyful, flirtatious engagement with the world around me. Meet me there.
So don’t talk to me about health benefits of sex and how to score the guy. Talk to me about being fully alive and harnessing the amazing energies within to create beautiful, transformative art, love, partnerships and a better world. Talk to me about sex that breathes erotic play, seduces me to fall off the edge of control, and dissolves, for a moment, life and death. Talk to me about the mystery of sex.
In its highest sense, our sexuality is a gateway to spirit, to the place where humanity meets divinity, and as such it is sacred. It offers us a readily available opportunity to experience the ecstatic union we all long for. If… that is… we dare surrender so deeply to the erotic dance, with ourselves, with each other.
I want to make love to life. What about you?
Lone
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kids and erotic potentially explosive combo
By Anna (not verified) on Sunday, 02/06/2011 at 10:00 PMLoved the article--posted it to my Facebook page. I live in Key West and one of the great joys of tropical living is the densitiy of the air, how it feels on your skin and the tantalizing wafts of night-blooming blossoms that engage you momentarily as you walk...I understand the difference between sensual beauty and know it can be experienced in absence of sex.
I just wanted to caution you about using the word "erotic" in the same sentence as "child". I know what you mean, but in a country that took a woman's child away from her because she asked if breastfeeding should feel so good, it's just too easy for your words to be taken out of context. It's a hot trigger, I think because so many of us have repressed memories of sexual abuse, but whatever, I'd hate to see your writing misjudged because of a knee-jerk(and I do mean JERK) reaction to certain words.
thanks Anna, for your sharing
By Lone (not verified) on Tuesday, 02/08/2011 at 5:06 PMthanks Anna,
for your sharing and thoughts on the risk of misinterpretations ... I'm in awe of this incident you describe, can barely believe that this is happening in our socalled 'enlightened' world, where we understand the complexities of biology and the body's ability to be at once in pain and pleasure - in the case of childbirth and breastfeeding, of course, to both make it possible to endure pain, but also to create chemical reactions and bonding.
Eroticism to me is widely understood, the fecundity of our living world and bodies, and yes, sometimes it's expressed sexually. I come from another country where the boundaries seem a bit more lax, less hysterical about bodies and nakedness and kids etc. so I guess I don't have the same filter on. And frankly, part of me don't want to curb myself exactly 'because' of the judgment you mentioned. Would that put me in fear and silent 'acknowledgment' of their judgment thus disowning what is true to me/women?
This woman was just expressing her wonder of the sensations caused in her body - neither right nor wrong, but just magically as it is. Same thing with women who have orgasm while giving birth. Should we not own that?
Our bodies, our sexuality isn't black and white, isn't just for the dark night in the bedroom. Is a huge part of who we are and show up in all areas of our lives. Let's not hide it, but also, let's not demystify it completely either, to chemicals and biology alone. Let's relish its mysteries, just like this lady did.
Anna, I take your caring to heart and hope you'll join me in sharing our truths and not buy into the 'fear' games ...
Big heart hug (from Santa Fe)
xo
My brain is more European than American I think
By Anna (not verified) on Wednesday, 02/09/2011 at 1:55 PMI agree with you...and I'm frustrated with what to me is a double standard in USA: parading sexuality by using it to sell cars, jewelry, beer, yet movies rated: heads exploding = okay for kids/simple tender nudity = not okay; we have got it all backwards. We're ashamed of the wrong things. Good loving erotic feelings are not to be feared yet we've demonized them. I don't know why and my head hurts when I try to figure it out.
What I was trying to do was point out that you might avoid trouble by re-wording your thought. Not change your meaning at all, just be aware of how stupid Americans will pull something out of context and whack you over the head with it. Merely a matter of phrasing, but maybe I was being presumptious. I've been whacked in the head with my own words too many times so I may be a bit overprotective of a "fellow" pink writer.
I meant it with an open heart, as you detected...fear has been a powerful block all my life and I'm working to overcome it.
thanks...<3
Anna, don't get me wrong. I
By Lone (not verified) on Wednesday, 02/09/2011 at 3:38 PMAnna,
don't get me wrong. I DO appreciate your caring and trying to protect me from being misinterpreted, and I will definitely keep this in mind as I find more and more courage to speak my truth (and risk being judged) ... I know it's a fine balance, and I'll be experimenting with ways to enchant/draw in people to my world, rather than prod and push away...
I do think truth telling is up, for all of us.
Sending much love.
Lone
Complicated
By Jessie Fano on Thursday, 01/20/2011 at 8:28 AMLone
You're absolutely right that all those things dampen our naturally erotic instincts. There are many strategies to counter them, and I have to confess that I have shoved most pf my eroticism into the dark hours of the night when the demands of these things tend to be asleep. Interesting note on how to be sensual w the kids. I do use that strategy, but I now have teenage boys and the physical communication between mother and adolescent son is complicated. I'm content that my boys hug me and don't pull away when I rub their backs, but I honestly cant say that this satisfies my erotic and sensual needs - nor should it. Nor can I satisfy my sensual needs with my husband in front of my kids, which squeezes the space dramatically for when and how my needs can be met. I manage, but your post reminded me of how much things will change when these concerns are not a daily, hourly challenge. Thanks for the great conversation.
-Jess
Researcher of WTF? Questions You'd Ask Your Sex Therapist If Only You Had One? Got a question? Ask me! (Twitter @JessieFano)
erotic life..
By Lone (not verified) on Wednesday, 01/19/2011 at 12:09 PMJess,
Its not just kids that dampens the erotic. Work does it. To do lists does it. Fear does it. Fear of feeling. I think at the very basis level, erotic life is to FEEL and SENSE life. It's not just to feel sexy or horny. Maybe it's more simple than we think... for instance, couldn't you play with all the senses when you play with your kids. Invite them into an 'erotic' way of life? I think they will thank you forever that you opened them to experience life fully, using all their senses.
Thanks for getting on the journey with me.
xo
Sexy is as sexy does
By Jessie Fano on Wednesday, 01/19/2011 at 5:29 AMGreat post. Because of it's power - as you say - sex is easily coopted, for good and cheap. Love how you claim it back into the integrated self where it belongs. An erotic life sounds so inviting, I had nearly forgotten in the rush of family these last 15 years how it used to feel. Kids are an eroticism dampener. Gonna have to work on that as they fly the nest. Thanks.
-Jess
Researcher of WTF? Questions You'd Ask Your Sex Therapist If Only You Had One? Got a question? Ask me! (Twitter @JessieFano)