through the connection you make with your
partner(s) or with yourself, sexually, opens up a
whole new journey into exploration of your inner
self.
There are endless epiphanies one may come
across when they start to open up about
themselves as sexually curious beings with certain
wants particularly personal to them. It is the path
to unravelling oneself as a personality through
deep understanding of what one really wants.
Sexual Orientation on the other hand is very
surficial to erotica. There are painters and writers
and poets who do not bind themselves to a
particular theme and wander into depicting several
erotic genres from heterosexual, homosexual,
metrosexual, to more experimental ones like
polyamory, group sex, fetishes and BDSM. Erotica
does not bind its audience to what we have been
shown to be “acceptable”; but it's a call to all to
break through these boundaries and let ourselves
grow into whichever way the streams of our
desires lead us.
There is one very beautiful genre of erotica and
that is self-love. We very often forget to address
the fact that before any 'other' comes into the
picture, learning to love ourselves and be satisfied
individuals is paramount. This also involves
sexually addressing oneself. It is an evidential fact
that controlled amount of self-love or masturbation
as we all know it, is as essential for mental and
physical health as being in a sexual relationship
with a partner.
Erotic Art, growing stronger into paintings,
sculpture, literature, film and music, has now
started stimulating people across the globe into
appreciating, discussing and philosophizing about
humans as sexual beings. But then don't confuse
yourselves here; 'sexual beings' does not mean
they have to have a lot of sex and act
provocatively; it is about expressing your sexuality
and what makes you feel beautiful; and creating
an environment ideal for other sexual beings to
live in harmony.
I, as a poet, began writing eight years ago with the
theme of 'love'. Yet nothing much has changed
since I started writing erotic poems about two
years back. I feel 'love' is that invisible bond that
has to be present between two (or more) people
consensually involved into sexual activities even if
the nature of their relationships may be casual. It
was an ineffable feeling I got when erotica gave
my poems of 'love' vaster plains to sow its verses,
and melted it down into multiple literary colors of
expression. The satisfaction after having written a
good poem is ethereal; and since Erotica
happened to me, that feeling has never stopped.