Here’s a funny thing I learned a long time ago: Prostitution is deeply embedded in all civilized bodies, in one way or another. The chronic collective repression of everything it represents makes it not only a huge part of our collective shadow, but also a collectively visceral shadow. I know this because when I say…
So, I was just half-listening to a talk by Amy Tan on MPR while going about some daily routines, and I didn’t hear the whole thing, but, interestingly (to me), I tuned in as she began to talk about beginning to suspect that her beloved grandmother (who is long dead, but evidently still very active…
So I’ve been researching the genre of whore memoirs lately, looking for a good agent to help me publish the Lunch Guy as a book, and here’s what I’ve uncovered: First – there has been a big surge in prostitute memoirs in the past decade (I knew that, but my research reaffirmed that sense). More…
My husband does energy work – which he’d call a misnomer because what he does doesn’t fit into quite that clear a category. It’s kind of a shamanic, James Hillman-esque, soul, mythic energy dialog. He has a highly developed, and very sensitive feminine side. Plus he’s schooled in the energetic and erotic nuances of whores…
“There had been countless women like me in the beds of kings but no one ever heard their stories, because who would care?“ Jillian Lauren I didn’t start out intrigued. I started out, like most would, terrified – it was a threat, not a mystery. That “I know how you’re going to turn out” business…
Fourteenth in a series [gs *] So, I’ve sent the go-away email a few hours ago and we’re still doing TK, [gs TK] ferretting out what blocks me from preempting those goo-bombs. We’ve established that I flip my body-awareness switch to off when faced with an ego-incongruity, but not always. It’s not like I go…
[gs **] Who was “the sacred prostitute”? And what happened to the developing consciousness of humankind when people no longer venerated the goddess of love, passion and sex? So asks Jungian Psychologist Nancy Qualls-Corbett, early in her book The Sacred Prostitute. She goes on later: These questions bothered me. Much as I wanted to put…