A couple of weeks ago I said this (see below) and so this transmission is an expansion of some psychic knots that bind us to ‘moralising’ our pleasure.
It’s hard not to see some cultural and theological roots of why we’ve been taught to mistrust our desires. So I traced the moralisation of pleasure from early Christian (patriarchal) thought to today’s aesthetic rebranding, red pill ideologies, and TikTok trad-wife trends.
A style is just a style.. but the way the “clean girl” aesthetic is often positioned with the “baddie” look reveals something ancient. It echoes the old psychic split: good vs evil, virtue vs temptation, Eve vs Lilith. And, what does that say about how femininity is still being policed through the illusion of choice?
Announcement:
On June 28th I’m hosting a special salon on ‘Beauty as a source of knowledge: the erosfuturism way’ Early bird special $55. Don’t worry if you can’t catch the live, the recording will be sent straight after.
What will be covered in our session together:
How beauty points toward the future: what is possible, what is calling, what is missing.
Beauty as a legitimate epistemology - a way of knowing, sensing, remembering, and discerning.
Erotic intelligence and appreciating our own beauty
A discussion on Toni Morrison's essay "The Source of Self-Regard"
Faith over fear always,
Sade.
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