Love/Sex Confusion
| Thursday, June
29, 2006
Love/Sex Confusion
If Love=Sex and Sex=Love, we'd all be living happily ever after
with all the Sex/Love that is circulating on the Internet. Unfortunately,
this is not the case... and what was intended to be one of the highest
forms of Love (sex) has become one of the lowest forms of contemporary
art (pornography) expressing the seductive practices of manipulation;
both of oneself and others.
If you honestly enjoy pornography, don't get me wrong; I'm not
trying to judge anyone for that... I recognize its place in the
world and the purpose it serves. For me, it serves to push us back
towards something more real, more pure, more sacred. I believe that
if our society was in a space of honest love sharing and sexual
satisfaction, pornography as we know it would not exist; it really
is more of a weapon of repression than a celebration of something
as wonderful as sex is meant to be.
I'm still looking for images to draw of people loving each other;
real people like me and you. I never publish photographs, just the
drawings done from them. Please help us widen our scope by sending
some in. This would be an awesome project for a sex-positive college
class, but anybody can do it using a digital camera on their own,
and we want people of all ages, sizes, cultures and sexual persuasions.
My experience with photographing myself with friends and lovers
has really been liberating and fun, and believe me, with the way
I was brought up to regard sex... I was about as prudish as you
can get. Write to me if you need some moral or technical support
on this: tendernesstowardssex@yahoo.ca
I believe placing loving images of sex on the Internet is one
way we can make a dent in the attitudes and perceptions that have
been so destructive to us and can change something for the generations
that will follow. Changing media imagery can help us see things
differently; enough of manipulating our minds into believing that
life consists only of we have been taught or what we can see. The
sacredness can be returned to us; reclaimed. It's not overly optimistic
to believe in this; it's a vital change in perspective necessary
to the survival of the human race. If we cannot make a dent in the
politics of the world in an obvious way, we can still change something
by changing our own personal attitudes. Changing sexual/love and
relational attitudes is activism at it's root; the foundation of
society is the human being in contact with others beyond the intellect.
Our hearts and bodies must also be brought into the equation, listened
to, and respected.
Thank you, everyone, for your lovely comments. They are always appreciated.
xox Victoria
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