In Reclaiming Eros: Sacred Whores and Healers, by Suzanne Blackburn and Margaret Wade, Suade Publishing, you will find fascinating stories about women and men who work inside and outside of conventional society making a powerful claim that erotic energy is our birthright and that it is essential to our vitality, creativity and optimum living. You will find stories of courageous healing and new possibilities. Read about the work and the vision of pioneers like Betty Dodson, Annie Sprinkle, Rudy Ballentine, Joseph Kramer, Alex Jade and more. You will also find useful information about eroticism, sexuality and alternative healing.
Reclaiming Eros challenges us to examine what roles eroticism and sexuality play in our lives, how we regard these powerful forces in ourselves and in others and how we might, if we dare, change our beliefs. Reclaiming Eros puts Eros back where it belongs - with all of life that is sacred and beautiful.
About Reclaiming Eros: Sacred Whores and Healers
Blackburn’s and Wade’s interviews with sexual pioneers — people who openly identify themselves using terms such as "sacred intimate" or "sacred prostitute" — are filled with profound insights, tenderness and humor; the thoughtfulness and integrity of the interviewees will undoubtedly shatter many preconceptions. Even those familiar with contemporary sacred sexuality are likely to encounter some new and interesting ideas. Blackburn and Wade demonstrate that it is possible to reclaim the sacred role of the prostitute and that doing so would help liberate us all.
Mark A. Michaels (Swami Umeshanand Saraswati)
and Patricia Johnson (Devi Veenanand),
authors of The Essence of Tantric Sexuality
Spirituality has been separated from sexual pleasure for too long in our culture. Reclaiming Eros puts it back where it belongs--in the healing energy of our most intimate relationships.
Gina Ogden, Ph.D., author of The Heart and Soul of Sex: Making the ISIS Connection and Women Who Love Sex: An Inquiry Into the Expanding Spirit
of Women's Erotic Experience.
Sacred prostitutes and sexual healing may look like impossible fantasies in our sex-negative culture, but in Reclaiming Eros, Blackburn and Wade
introduce us to a wondrously diverse group of women and men dedicated to the practice of sacred sex as an underground journey to the light. This lucid unfolding of emotional, spiritual and sexual mysteries add up to one stupendous affirmation: Eros can make you whole. And here are the men and women who can show you how!
Dossie Easton
Marriage and Family Therapist
Co-author with Janet Hardy of The Ethical Slut
and Radical Ecstasy: SM Journeys to Transcendence.
Reclaiming Eros: Sacred Whores and Healers
by Suzanne Blackburn and Margaret Wade
Single copy $17.95
2 or more $14.40 each
Reclaiming Eros: Sacred Whores and Healers