Sexual Pleasure – BethLovemore

Pleasure First

We’re not socially conditioned to put pleasure as a priority in our lives. We’re conditioned to obey authority, work long hours, waste our money on material things we think will make us happy, and we’re conditioned to squelch our natural primal sexual desires. However, putting pleasure first, especially our sexual pleasure, keeps us vibrantly alive and in our full power. Being in touch with our “Pleasure Dome” keeps us in successful relationships with our partners, as well as ourselves.

We’ve been taught to believe that sexual pleasure is taboo, bad, sinful and something we just don’t freely talk about. We’re offered a bare minimum, inadequate or even medically incorrect sex education in middle school, then left to figure it out on our own as we haphazardly make our way through romantic relationships, partnerships, marriages, separations and divorces. In the ancient days of some cultures, young men and women were schooled in the art of sex and how to pleasure themselves and their partners. It’s a shame the art of giving and receiving pleasure has been lost in the western culture; especially since being fully expressed sexually keeps us happy, loving and living a life that is radiantly vibrant.

And here’s a nugget of awakening: It’s an absolute myth that sexual pleasure stops at a certain age and that as we get older we’re no longer sexually vital or attractive with our wrinkles, age spots and sagging skin.

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“Sexuality is a superpower. Our attractions and repulsions, sexual signals and links, hopes and disappointments go through all of society like a nervous system, permeating every office, every shopping mall, every art exhibition, every conference, every group, every company, every political party. The healing of sexuality is perhaps the most revolutionary step in the present healing work after thousands of years of suppression and neglect.”
DIETER DUHM

There are so many beautiful “rooms” in the Pleasure Dome that have been hidden to us by society’s patriarchal conditioning that sexual pleasure is dirty, forbidden, sinful and taboo. But, this is the thing…sexual pleasure is our birthright. At our core, as my teacher and mentor Jaiya has so eloquently expressed, “we are erotically sophisticated beings and our bodies are our instruments of pleasure,” yet most of us do not fully understand how to play our own instrument nor how to instruct our partners on how to do so.

A true understanding of the power of the primordial creative force of our sexuality has been kept from us by the patriarchal religions as a means of domination and control. When we are deeply connected to the sacredness of our sexuality and living a fully sex-expressed life, all areas of our life are affected in a profoundly powerful way. When we are connected to and own our full sexuality, we are living a life filled with vitality, power, pleasure, joy, sovereignty, and most of all, deep love for ourselves and humanity.

Here’s to humanity’s reconnecting to the source of our true power, breaking through the chains of society’s conditioning, and creating a world where everyone is accepted and feels as though they belong. Let freedom ring.

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“Chains…each link is connected…creating strength and resilience to withstand the impending….granting a since of freedom…” ~Jefry

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