Buckle Up // Full Set
Added 2023-05-24 19:41:00 +0000 UTCI'm still learning so much about my own sensuality and what it means to feel and experience and see sensuality in all things. I learn so much about myself and others through my exploration of photography. Sensuality is not sexuality. Sexuality is awesome too. But to be sensual suggests aliveness and feeling - as opposed to numb, unfeeling, guarded by the mind and not even your own mind but ideas that we adopt early on. Our nature is sensual. It's beyond primal and reproductive. We got lucky. I think people miss the beat when they make it synonymous with sexuality. Here are some definitions of sensual and sensuality to help explain what I am trying to portray:
the enjoyment, expression, or pursuit of pleasure.
relating to or consisting in the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of appetite
marked by the appetites and passions of the body
SENSUAL, a. from L. sensus. Pertaining to the senses, distinct from the mind.
sensual + -ity, from Middle French sensualité, from Latin sensualitas “sensibility, capacity for sensation” AKA more feeling.
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Sensuality can transform to seduction which can move into sexuality. I think what we really yearn for is to feel and see sensuality, more often than actual sex. Sensuality and seduction is what gives it all more storyline and depth and richness, like a slow drip, a giving rather than taking. I'll leave you with some quotes, closer to what these photos remind me of...
"Seduce yourself first" Kamand Kojouri
"Sensuality is not a sexual invitation, it’s a depth invitation." Lebo Grand
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