Before the power outage knocked me off-line, I promised to talk about sex as more than an expression of love or a simple satisfaction of physical desire. I want to share a couple of thoughts from Thomas Moore's Dark Nights of the Soul:
"By bringing out your sensuality and vitality, at its best sex can connect you to society and to the natural world. It can be the vehicle by which you surrender to life and can restore a sense of your body. Sex accomplishes a great deal for the human soul through the emotional relationship and through sensuality."
"Sex involves precisely those things that are most important to the soul: love, curiosity, fantasy, desire, pleasure, intimacy, and sensation. In sex, there is no obvious work to be done and no particular outcome...In sex, the body is a world to be explored. ...practicality recedes. What happens then is of great significance to your sense of meaning, to feelings of relatedness, and to a sense of self."
If you're a person who says, "I just don't care about sex", your partner's needs may not be the only thing that's getting neglected. You may also be missing out on an important source of connection to your body and to the earth.
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Hi Jean,
These are two good Moore quotes that express the soul-sex relationship. If you'd like to join a community interested in Moore's writings, please visit Barque: Thomas Moore Forum at http://thomasmoore.ning.com . Registration is free and members may be up for a discussion about soul and sex.
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