sacred sexuality

it's a shame that our culture is not familiar with the concept of sacred sexuality. i mean, yeah, you can take a class on tantra or something, but--barring ethnic heritages--we are not fully vested in the power of our bodies...and that's especially true of women.

i'm not talking about sensuality as commodity. stripping to get through college is all well and good, but it's not the point here.

i'm talking about understanding that women walk with the gateway between heaven & earth between their thighs (c) olaomi--whether they use it to bring forth children or concepts and ideas. as for men, the penis is not a weapon, but a protective, motivating activation of the life force.

i'm talking about temples where the act of sex was made into a ritual designed to continue, celebrate, embrace and encourage life.

i know it seems near impossible from our perspective, but...have you ever had a moment like that? when your lover made you feel like you were not a woman, but a chalice? that your bed was an altar? orgasms that shake your soul, blending all of yourself into one shining sphere of light?

if not, you need to find a book/relationship/person/toy/thought/idea that'll show you how.

it's not just about a release...
it's about manifesting the power to create your world.
pleasure that allows you to drift into your most powerful, prophetic dreaming.

the female orgasm is not a myth. it's the reason everything wonderful about mankind exists.

tune yourself into your goddess nature--whether you're a fertility goddess, warrior woman, medicine woman, healer, domestic, mother, artist, creator/destroyer...whatever.

be Her.
know Her.
love Her.

the memory is etched into your womb. seriously. if you open to it, it will come.

suggested reading...
(if you have a favorite, post it here or in the comments section. let's start a revolution, y'all)

aphrodite's daughters by jalaja bonheim

all about love by bell hooks

the clitoral truth by rebecca chalker

the black unicorn: poems by audre lorde

sassafrass, cypress, and indigo by ntozake shange

the prisoner's wife by asha bandele

the encyclopedia of sacred sexuality by rufus camphausen

healing love through the tao: cutivating female sexual energy by mantak chia

the multi-orgasmic man by mantak chia & douglas abrams arava