Erotic Body Expression: Erotic Dances As A Therapeutic Tool
If we talk about erotic dances, what does your imagination or what society tells you it is? And if we think about everything that the energy of Eros implies, sensuality and sexuality itself are among the most limited spheres of humanity due to entertainment, the commercial and production system, even property of the patriarchy.
I am a faithful defender that when it comes to sexuality, eroticism is not an exclusive issue of one gender. It is a matter of natural human characteristic, which belongs to us as a human right. We have been sold the idea that sex, eroticism and pleasure is only for male consumption and enjoyment while emotions, vulnerability and love are a property only of women, so We believed the story and the story that all erotic expression is only for the service, approval and male pleasure but always questionable or unthinkable if it is about female free will and ridiculous if it is about male erotic bodily expression.
In reality, erotic dances are a free bodily expression, sometimes they are part of choreography and staging with the belief that it is only for the entertainment of the observer ; However, the dances also come from ancestral behaviors and erotic dances like any other artistic expression allow those who live it to experience the freedom that their mind wants through the moment of their body that in some way seeks to recover or express appropriation of the personal sexuality, as an enriching exercise of identity and erotic attitude, a moment of physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual liberation that facilitates the connection between the body and the mind, the said presence favoring individual sexuality as a source of can.
You are in the here and now. It is liberating because it is not only about moving sensually for the sake of it, but it is an expression that performed in front of the mirror allows us to self-observe the erotic self where it nourishes the creative capacity, self-esteem and facilitates the conscious development of the self. erotic and sensual potential of our body, contributes to the improvement of mood, improves memory and of course… It can be an excellent courtship strategy as many other animal species of seduction do as a way to build intimacy.
However, Why is it so difficult to recognize it as an individual exercise that can be done in the privacy of some space or for yourself? Is it so unthinkable to believe that eros and pleasure are also ours and belong to us? Why the mental blindness of believing that everything is for others, perhaps we can’t do anything for ourselves?
Personal empowerment through eroticism
Talking about erotic dances is not just talking about a striptease to end by taking off your clothes, sensual dance or lap dance, nor is it reducing any erotic expression that seeks entertainment or enjoyment for others, at this point it is time for us to open our minds to these topics … And yes, it is also personal empowerment
An erotic dance since the Renaissance, although it seems absurd to us today, the Waltz was considered a forbidden dance for its time due to the closeness between the couple and the crossing between the feet and legs when the appropriate thing was to always keep the distance, and so I could expand on Cancan, Burlesque, tango, Mapalé, ballet or samba and more recently the sexy pole dance or exotic pole, even twerk although it has more sexual than erotic overtones in itself, the latter well It also promotes hip mobility, activation of the first chakra and opening up to the wild for perhaps more introverts, in that case… Even twerking can also be therapeutic.
A person whose problem with self-esteem, personal security, low libido, trauma, rigidity, shame, body dysmorphia or shyness, etc. that may or may not be found in a sexual therapeutic process, are much more likely to achieve effective erotic and sexual development than those who do not the exercise of perceiving oneself as a sensual being without criticism in front of the mirror in the privacy of some safe space and although it has nothing to do with whether or not it makes us good lovers, there are many more variables involved but with certainty can be a person who can more confidently recognize his or her own body and free sexual behavior when interacting in bed with someone else.
