Blog 2 - Desire (from GWSS 1003W Women Write the World Fall 2010)

The reading this week which I found most enlightening was Audre Lorde's "The Uses of the Erotic". Lorde's piece caused me to reevaluate the word "erotic" and what it can stand for. The idea of erotic does not need to be associated purely with sex or the sexually taboo. Erotic itself can be a mindset or an experience associated with anything one finds pleasurable. There is the possibility for eroticism in anything one allows themselves to fully experience and embrace. ... Education College Major