Skin
L'homme sans peau et moi
L'homme sans peau is a speech that talk about Spirit in Africa
„The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation. For this reason, we have often turned away from the exploration and consideration of the erotic as a source of power and information, confusing it with its opposite, the pornographic. But pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. It is an internal sense of satisfaction to which, once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire. For having experienced the fullness of this depth of feeling and recognizing its power, in honor and self-respect we can require no less of ourselves. (...)
We have been raised to fear the YES within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our future lose their power and can be altered(...)
When we live outside ourselves, and by that I mean on external directives only rather than from our internal knowledge and needs, when we live away from those erotic guides from within ourselves, then our lives are limited by external and alien forms, and we conform to the needs of a structure that is not based on human need, let alone an individual’s.
But when we begin to live from within outward, in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves, and allowing
that power to inform and illuminate our actions upon the world around us, then we begin to be responsible to ourselves in the deepest sense“. The erotic as Power by Aude Lorde, 1978