Mashup: Sexuality and Gender

Mash-up: Sexuality and gender

Females and Sexuality: Why is something natural, beautiful, and human so misunderstood by society?

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2.)   Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, an infinite learning that is given to us, a knowledge of the world, the fullness and splendor of all knowledge.

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4.)   Man and woman, freed from all mistaken feelings and aversions, will seek each other not as opposites but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will unite as human beings, in order to bear in common, simply, earnestly, and patiently, the heavy sex that has been laid upon them.

5.) How can they find a way out of themselves, out of the depths of their already buried solitude?

6.) There is a realm above this plane of silent compromise.

7.)        Women, have unique talents and emotional lives that have been relatively neglected for centuries, and are only now beginning to find full expression within the mainstream culture.

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9.)  Women, in whom life lingers and dwells more immediately, more fruitfully, and more confidently, must surely have become riper and more human in their depths than light, easygoing man, who is not pulled down beneath the surface of life by the weight of any bodily fruit and who, arrogant and hasty, undervalues what he thinks he loves.

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11.)   This humanity of woman, carried in her womb through all her suffering and humiliation, will come to light when she has stripped off the conventions of mere femaleness in the transformations of her outward status…

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13.)     A monster threatens humanity, appearing as the serpent demon (Satan writhing at the bottom of hell), dragon, gorgon, golem, vampire.

14.)      Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.

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10.)              Screenshots from Batman Returns http://distractionsoflola.tumblr.com/photo/1280/595439262/1/tumblr_l294ualm9z1qa2ylw

11.)              Rilke, Rainer Maria. (77)

12.)              Concept art of Poison Ivy from Batman: Arkham Asylum http://api.ning.com/files/6KdPbS4y5nxf4p-FAPbmuZGTGoTkJzHxOpflm4d1uzfFq6if4k8lgHH2tafqP8L8FKEgtWmJRL-0aiYkPoyc83LVlxhpTFYi/poisonIVYbatmanarkhamasylum.jpg

13.)              Wilson, Edward O. (244)

14.)              Rilke, Rainer Maria. (92)