Eroticism

So… I’m going for three posts in a row… do I get a hat trick?

Dodie. You know how I adore musical women. Oh my gosh, there are no words to describe how absolutely lovely Dodie is (generally, but in this video especially - I’m sure you’ll get straight away why this arrives here). I dare you to watch the last thirty seconds without totally melting! 😍

I didn’t just melt. I cried. I’m crying now..
 
Just to make it up to @softbird for the more clumsy images earlier. Maybe these will make amends.

Bobs! They’re so gorgeous! For many reasons, mostly apparent in these pictures… other reasons more subtle or personal. But aren’t they just utterly beautiful?

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💋 To be clear, you were not expected to make amends. But, bobs are the most beautiful things. I am a very ardent fan of the Bob. I swear by it. You have redeemed yourself!
 
Not to derail any mood formed in here but just sometimes EDM can strike that balance between making you move and making you sway.

Rufus Du Sol’s vocalist has that ability to drift you between both.
(plus I am biased as I have this on pink vinyl ❤️)

 
Not to derail any mood formed in here but just sometimes EDM can strike that balance between making you move and making you sway.

Rufus Du Sol’s vocalist has that ability to drift you between both.
(plus I am biased as I have this on pink vinyl ❤️)

I thought it began quite beautifully, but as it got up-tempoed, I felt the sensuality of the opening seemed to dissipate, but oh my the visuals though...the visuals!!
 
We've talked about the bobs, and I for one am partial to them, you may have noticed. But unruly, wild, exuberant hair can only be carried by a special woman. She embodies the vastness of Gaia, the raw ferocity of a Kali, the dark unreachability of an Isis. How can such polar axes converge in one being? yet, there are women who walk among us, who exude such grace, one would think they are the embodiments of Thomistic hylopmorphsm.
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We've talked about the bobs, and I for one am partial to them, you may have noticed. But unruly, wild, exuberant hair can only be carried by a special woman. She embodies the vastness of Gaia, the raw ferocity of a Kali, the dark unreachability of an Isis. How can such polar axes converge in one being? yet, there are women who walk among us, who exude such grace, one would think they are the embodiments of Thomistic hylopmorphsm.
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You make everything so beautiful. Your words, your mind, your images..
 
Release, by Poppy Ackroyd.

This came on in the car today, as I pulled up and parked. It was hidden away on a playlist. I sat and listened, watching the rain fall on the windscreen.

It is the beauty of watching cherry blossoms released from the tree, blowing across our path and getting caught in your hair as you dance.

It is the dandelion seeds, dancing after being blown away from the soft globe of their home, while you ask if the person you desire loves you.

It is the balooning feeling of breathing in, more than breathing out, as you walk up to someone you adore, and releasing your breath in acceptance as they smile at you and gather your hands into theirs.

It is the returning hands and lips of a lover who has been gone for too long.

It is being held and crying deeply into the shoulder of a gentle soulmate.

It is the kiss that has been locked inside of you for years and finally released by someone you hope you will fall in love with.

It is getting so lost in conversation with someone you admire, as you drive them home, that you drive past their street and laugh knowingly at yourselves together.

It is stepping outside from a place of hurt, and feeling the rain against your cheeks, disguising your tears from the sky.

It is discovering that you are loved more than you thought you were.

It is standing on the shingle, with outstretched arms, exclaiming your pain to the sea, so that her ebbing tide might take it away from you.

It is an outpouring of sentiment after being moved beyond your stillness.

It is being touched by your lover in a way which makes your soul spill out of you in a shuddering, passionate, vociferous climax.

It is finding your voice when you thought it was lost, and singing your heart out.

It is the feeling of radiance after telling someone you cherish that you think they are beautiful.

It’s all of these things, my beautiful, erotic friends.

❤️
This is a poem. It is a poem.. thank you for this flinging of your soul upon the gloom xx
 
Last night, for the first time, she looked at me. She looked at me. I was writing an email, timelines for the exhibition details and preparing of art spaces and the delivery of the pieces, et cet et cet, but I sensed the stillness in the room, as if the world stopped moving, and when I looked up, she was looking at me, at the strap of my bra, pastel blue, which had come into view as my dress clung to the edge of my right shoulder.

Her eyes stared, then at my shoulder, bare, and then, as if becoming aware of where they were, darted to my eyes, and the moment was broken.

The world began speaking again, and I adjusted my dress, and yet I had been seen.

All night, at home, I thought of bras and shoulders and thought of mine and what she would have seen, how she would have seen.

Have you truly looked at bras and how they wrap the skin?

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Tonight, I give you only moments, varied and whimsical. Light is everywhere, and when it isn't, there is silence, and in this silence our women wait, for nothing, or for everything perhaps. We're lucky, because we're watching them, enjoying them, their stillness.
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So, I think there is a difference between Eroticism and pure sexuality. While the sexual can also be erotic, the erotic is often not necessarily sexual.
George Battaile said once that eroticism as thriving when it breaks prohibitions, goes beyond the physical, into something else, something we can’t express but feel. Perhaps, he is referring to o something similar to what the Romantics called the sublime.

So this thread is about the erotic, moving away from the sexual to something being it, something more sublime.

Hopefully we can work out what eroticism actually is.

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Such beautiful pictures and images in this thread. I think the power of eroticism lies in subtlety, the implied and indirect glimpses of sexuality. These images really capture that, and the stolen little moments that surprise you with sexual thoughts...
 
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