Sexual and Romantic Relations
More than anything else, we humans want meaningful connections of love and pleasure.
For us, sex can provide what Masters and Johnson called "the pleasure bond." But, dominator relations full of tension, mistrust, and fear get in the way of this pleasure bond.
Strict male control of women can numb and terrorize, making impossible women's natural, joyful sexuality. Depriving women of reproductive choice turns sex into bondage rather than bonding.
More of us are recognizing that there is nothing wrong with our bodies, that sex is not dirty, evil or sinful, that women as well as men have a great capacity for sexual pleasure, and that there is a spiritual dimension to human sexuality.
Read excerpts from Eisler's book on the spiritual aspects of sexuality
Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body -- New Paths to Power and Love
Articles on Spiritual Aspects of Sexuality
- Making Sex a Sacred Pleasure
Interview by Jyotsna Sreenivasan for New Moon Network, March/April 1996 - Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth and the Politics of the Body
Interview by Jerry Snider for Magical Blend, Jan.1996 - Sex, Spirituality, and Evolution: Are We Victims to the Beast Within?
Interview by Mark Harris for Conscious Choice, February 1999
Adapted from The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships That Will Change Your Life (2002), by Riane Eisler, New World Library
