What are we looking for? - Honest erotica

I love writing erotic poetry. 

I remember writing one of my first erotic poems about watching myself masturbating in the reflection of a radiator, and how I didn’t ever question whether this was something I should be writing. When I write about the point of orgasm or oral sex or the bodily experience of arousal, there is a sense of calm and confidence about what I am writing. This is my experience, this is what I know, and ultimately, this is the moment when I feel at my most perfect. 

And I return to the end of this essay by Adrienne Rich from What is found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics:

“A poem can’t free us from the struggle for existence, but it can uncover desires and appetites buried under the accumulating emergencies of our lives” (p12,13)


I’m not claiming any political agenda by writing in this way, I want only to write about experiences we often bury in our lives. And what a beautiful feeling to write about. 


Love,
Wendy x 

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