http://wordpress.dalmaheyn.com/2008/08/27/woodys-movie-about-desire/ Dalma Heyn - Psychotherapist & Pet Loss Grief Counselor Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:43:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 http://wordpress.dalmaheyn.com/2008/08/27/woodys-movie-about-desire/#comment-18 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:57:52 +0000 http://blog.thelovegoddess.com/?p=203#comment-18 Dear DesertMother,
I love what you say, because I believe that desire isn’t limited to love of the opposite sex, but is a more broad longing for connection–whether that be with the self, the soul, or with humanity. Only in what feminists once called “the erotic plot” was women’s desire confined to the Domestic. And that was because women themselves (not here in the pantheon, but down there on earth) were confined to domesticity! That your pleasure isn’t focused on the domestic, now, but on a larger canvas, feels healthy and exciting to me. And proof that desire isn’t a reductive idea stuck in a narrow narrative, but that it can be as big as all outdoors.
–The Love Goddess

]]> http://wordpress.dalmaheyn.com/2008/08/27/woodys-movie-about-desire/#comment-19 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:16:31 +0000 http://blog.thelovegoddess.com/?p=203#comment-19 I don’t know whether it’s because I’m a woman of a ceratin age, but I am not all that interested in erotic relationships these days. I’m much more interested in self-mastery and learning how to influence the world around me–in self-empowerment. Sorry, such a cliche I know but is there a better word?. I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to feel this way when I was in my twenties and thirties. I would have made some very different decisions. Especially about men.

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