We are Together

By Eris Vs. Eros
A Poor Porn Production
February 25, 2005
Copyright 2005, All Rights Reserved.

“There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;” – Ephesians 4:4

The partners came into the room and into each other. They were there together. They were there to come together. They were there for themselves, and they were there for the other. Each of them had hang-ups, fears, and guilts from the past, but they had come a long ways with honest communication and loving themselves while they knew that the other loved them too.

Not just a shallow self-centered love, but not the steep “perfect” notion of love either. This was the love that was good, but that to philosophize over its meaning would take away from that very same meaning, as it was understood somewhere in the recesses of their collective unconscious with each other.

Both wanted the other, both felt wanted, both were happy, and both were not ashamed of the pleasure they would be receiving. Both were human, neither was an object; they were souls with flesh, and the flesh was good. They were explorers, together, they explored their bodies, their minds, their fetishes, their fears, their joys, their love.

They had not placed expectations on the other. They didn’t feel pressured to perform, or to be perfect. They weren’t there to compare the acts of the now with the acts of the past; they were there for the moment. They recognized that neither of them was perfect, but that perfection was not needed, nor even an applicable concept, and to think in that paradigm would dampen the experience. They communicated their needs and desires, and negotiated their boundaries. Yet it was much simpler then all those self-help books: it just was. They simply listened to the other and to themselves, and were willing to share what they could.

Some talk of tantra or other ancient rituals. Every sexual encounter is ancient as our bodies, and ancient as life itself. Yet we have been thrown into this life without an understanding, except for the images and messages that society throws at us, which have been built upon the walls of religions, misunderstood moralities, old fears, continual desires, and humanness. We always think this is new, that we are the pioneers, and of course, we are right. Just as it always has been new, because sex does bring the new into the world, and every act of copulation and touch are acts that can bring the new to us.