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Here’s an email from a reader:
Love your site — I feel exactly as you do! In fact, I have been preparing a book to liberate, revalue, and empower autoeroticists for over a year. So much of the erotica on the net generally focuses on women as the only legitimate erotic beings, a vaginocentric culture, if you will. With a lifetime of experience and having read everything I could find, both clinical and nonclinical, I have long wanted to see INTRA-personal relationships come out of the closet. I feel that a lot of the anger, the competition between men, and that stresses between men and women can be reduced if we as men accept ourselves as legitimate, beautiful, and erotic beings– and the first step is making love to ourselves.
Personally, I started out at nine years old with a friend–we thought we had INVENTED it. I was trying to find out if we could get a patent at the point when we discovered we were not the first to discover it!
Following, please find the preface, the Bill of Rights, that begins the book. I would love to hear your thoughts on it, and have it posted on your site.
[Webmaster's note: My thoughts? I concur wholeheartedly! Looking forward to your book!!]
The Autoeroticist’s Bill of Rights
I. Your body belongs to you, what you do with it is your decision, your right, and your pleasure.
II. You deserve all the pleasure you can get from your body. You feed it, you clothe it, you shelter it. You should freely enjoy making love to it, and to yourself as a person, joyously.
III. Everything about your body is beautifully human. Your arms, legs, face, hands, chest, nipples, belly, back, ass, balls, and your beautiful cock all should be celebrated, accepted and embraced as part of your humanity. Being male makes you no less valid as a sexual being than a woman, and touching yourself is as desirable and as pleasurable as touching another. You should have no hate or fear of any part of yourself or your sexuality.
IV. You should be your own best lover. You owe it to yourself to discover every bit of your sensuality, sexuality, and eroticism.
V. You should always treat yourself as you would a woman (or man) you would give anything to make love to. Always give your best. Always accept your best.
VI. Your sexuality and spirituality are never in conflict. If you feel that they are, society has tricked you into hating a part of your natural, human self. Do not be tricked. Accept yourself, Love yourself, and Cherish time spent making love to yourself.
VII. Never be ashamed of anything you do in bed with yourself.
VIII. Knowledge of self, sexually, spiritually, intellectually, and psychologically is a positive thing, it is the path to enlightenment.
IX. Until you are complete in your own sexuality, you will never be totally free is sharing your sexuality with another. Making love to yourself regularly, thoughtfully, and well will make you a great lover, whether you are with yourself or someone else.
Keep up the great work!!!
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