Eroticism

I really like how this thread tries to distinguish the erotic from the merely sexual, especially in the Bataillean sense of breaking boundaries and touching something ineffable. For me, the erotic is more about feeling, tension, and depth than physicality alone — almost like the sublime in Romantic art. On a related note, I came across some peripheral resources like https://hk-escort.com/ that explore how desire and attraction get represented in different cultural spaces, which might add another angle to this conversation.
 
erotic/eroticism to me means unraveling someone or the tension that’s involved in the before, the in between space of what it and what could be. bataille does a wonderful job at reaching into the space and pulling it like a well stretched muscle and turning that intimacy and taboo into something beyond the plane of human form.
 
Indeed! Eroticism, under his pen, has a lot to do with selfhood, and it’s explosion, it’s overflow out of seriousness, into exuberance. Or in his words, “opens to what’s beyond itself.”
 
Mirrors reflect, but I see mirrors as landscapes of dream wishes, refracted reality like the light of stars that we see in the sky at night. They are not the stars themselves, but their refractions that announe the presence of stars, millions of lightyears away. They pronounce longing, as well as distance, an unreachable sublime we are so much aware of, despite its unreachability.

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(C) Danya Kontorovich

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(C)Helmut Newton, for Vogue, October 1973

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Who is the 3rd pic? stunningly beautiful
 
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