Alternatives Quote by Volkmar Sigusch

People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals.

— Catharine MacKinnon

The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of…

— Audre Lorde

Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience,…

— Camille Paglia

We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a…

— Audre Lorde

“. . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our…

— Audre Lorde

The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the…

— Audre Lorde

“Recognizing the power of the erotic within our lives can give us the energy to pursue genuine change within our world, rather than merely…

— Audre Lorde

Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things.

— Saul Bellow

“Although relatively more open to same-sex unions, contemporary American culture nevertheless bristles with a need to categorize human eroticism, a force that by its…

— Siri Hustvedt

“I've never felt erotica was a 'niche market'. 50 years ago, Earth's population was 3 billion. Now it's 7 billion. That tells me a…

— Alex Milton

“The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the…

— Audre Lorde

I think if you were to sever the connection between arousal and shame, you might actually come up with something liberating and socially useful.…

— Alan Moore