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Erotic Faith: Sex as Religion (or Kaleidoscopic Perspectives on Sex and Love, Part II)  

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4/18/2010 9:32 pm

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Erotic Faith: Sex as Religion (or Kaleidoscopic Perspectives on Sex and Love, Part II)

I've posted in the past a few times about what I call erotic faith: the way sex partakes in the divine, the spiritual, the religious, the holy.

Here's another kaleidoscopic swirl of quotes, passages, and poems suggesting, so often through metaphor, a link between the religion and eros, love and the miraculous.


To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

–Jorge Luis Borges, Other Inquisitions

At the heart of sex is something intrinsically spiritual, the desire for a union so primal it can be called divine.
–Sam Keen

Love and religion! ... How detestable, how detestable they are! ... The cruelest things in the world...love and religion.
–Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

And when you appear
all the rivers sound
in my body, bells
shake the sky,
and a hymn fills the world.
–Pablo Neruda, “The Queen”

Where there is great love there are always miracles.
–Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.
–Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

… here was a boundless sensual freedom, theirs for the taking, even blessed by the vicar—with my body I thee worship—a dirty, joyous, bare-limbed freedom, which rose in his imagination like a vast airy cathedral, ruined perhaps, roofless, fan-vaulted to the skies, where they would weightlessly drift upward in a powerful embrace and have each other, drown each other in waves of breathless, mindless ecstasy. –Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. –Havelock Ellis

This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun


In my hands your
body is a hymnal
open to the familiar
page of praise. I
sing you in the ancient
rhythm that brought
us all here to make
what we will of
this world, I sing
you in tongues and
in silent awe of our
loving, certain only
of imminent separation.
–Anne K. Smith, “Praise”

Desire confounds us, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, Jew, atheist, pantheist, agnostic … desire confounds us. Our vocabulary of the erotic spirit is often impoverished.

–Sam Hamill, preface to The Erotic Spirit: An Anthology of Poems of Sensuality, Love, and Longing

LoveHoochies 53M

4/18/2010 10:10 pm

 I am confounded.

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And I prefer it that way.
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