Living an Erotic Life

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Full Exposure, Suzie Bright

Full Exposure is Susie Bright’s erotic manifesto; in the opening chapter she says:

In this book, I want to cut through all the labels and the politics and reveal what I’ve learned about sex – what has been transformative for me as a lover, a parent, a daughter, and an artist. I want to argue that sexuality is the soul of the creative process and that erotic expression of any kind is a personal revolution.

Sex gets no respect in North American culture. It may get a lot of attention, but that’s far from being the same. We look at most of the facets of our selves and agree that it is important that they be realised, expressed, integrated into our lives. Our intellect, our spirituality, our ethics and values, our compassion, our actions, our loves, our work, all of this infuses and informs all the other things we do. But sex, that we put in a box. Our erotic selves are supposed to be kept separate, private, apart.

Of course, they don’t stay there. They break out and demand attention – but the kind of attention that is given to the erotic maintains the distance, the separation, the isolation of sexuality in our selves and our lives. Full Exposure gives us Bright’s experiences and insights on breaking down the walls and being fully erotic people, just as much as we are, or strive to be, fully loving, fully spiritual, fully thinking, fully caring people.

Comments

[calico-reaction.livejournal.com]

This too looks fascinating!

[hawkeye7.livejournal.com]

Susie the Sexpert? I remember her. She used to write real person slash featuring Dan Quayle...

[bibliogramma.livejournal.com]

Suzie has been doing provocative sex-stuff for a very long time, yes. I'm not always in full agreement with everything she does, but goddess, it's good to read someone who's that enthusiastically sex-positive.

I'm not sure if the Feminist Sex Wars hit Australian feminism as badly as they did in North America, but the bloody polarisation that goes on around here in some quarters is hard to take at times. All porn is evil. All men are rapists. All penetrative sex is a re-enforcement of the patriarchy. There's no sense that all of the ways in which sex is portrayed and enacted may be symptoms and reflections of a patriarchal edifice which is not going to go away just because you ban porn and drive all sex work further underground than it already is.

Um, I could rant for a long time, but you might get bored.