Desire
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Giraffes are this
desire
in the dark."
It's taken for granted that Chinese factories are oppressive, and that it's our
desire
for cheap goods that makes them so.
Chinese workers are not forced into factories because of our insatiable
desire
for iPods.
Nonconcordance, very simply, is when there is a lack of predictive relationship between your physiological response, like salivation, and your subjective experience of pleasure and
desire.
Number 13: On occasion, the victim, female or male, may experience a physical response, but this is not a sexual response in the sense of
desire
or mutuality."
They communicate their delight to their children, who respond with smiles, and a
desire
to achieve more and to learn more.
Our artistic
desire
doesn't go away.
We want to express, to reveal ourselves, but with the artist dead, the artistic
desire
reveals itself in dark form.
Seen from those stairs, all politicians today seem the same, and politics has come to resemble a sport that inspires more aggressiveness and pessimism than social cohesion and the
desire
for civic protaganism.
What is it about transgression that makes
desire
so potent?
And when you desire, how is it different?
These are some of the questions that are at the center of my exploration on the nature of erotic
desire
and its concomitant dilemmas in modern love.
So I travel the globe, and what I'm noticing is that everywhere where romanticism has entered, there seems to be a crisis of
desire.
This is the first time that we want sex over time about pleasure and connection that is rooted in
desire.
So what sustains desire, and why is it so difficult?
And at the heart of sustaining
desire
in a committed relationship, I think, is the reconciliation of two fundamental human needs.
What is the relationship between love and
desire?
And if there is a verb that comes with desire, it is "to want."
But in desire, we tend to not really want to go back to the places we've already gone.
In desire, we want an Other, somebody on the other side that we can go visit, that we can go spend some time with, that we can go see what goes on in their red-light district.
Basically, when I get back in touch with my ability to imagine myself with my partner, when my imagination comes back in the picture, and when I can root it in absence and in longing, which is a major component of
desire.
There is no caretaking in
desire.
We can experience that powerful thing called anticipation, which is a mortar to
desire.
But more importantly, for me to begin to understand who are the couples who have an erotic spark, what sustains desire, I had to go back to the original definition of eroticism, the mystical definition, and I went through it through a bifurcation by looking, actually, at trauma, which is the other side.
Because
desire
comes with a host of feelings that are not always such favorites of love: jealousy, possessiveness, aggression, power, dominance, naughtiness, mischief.
But no, in our mind up there are a host of things going on that we don't always know how to bring to the person that we love, because we think love comes with selflessness and in fact
desire
comes with a certain amount of selfishness in the best sense of the word: the ability to stay connected to one's self in the presence of another.
That's the beginning of desire, that exploratory need, curiosity, discovery.
Because in the beginning, the growing intimacy wasn't yet so strong that it actually led to the decrease of
desire.
So what happens, if you want to sustain desire, it's that real dialectic piece.
Responsibility and
desire
just butt heads.
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