"With vibrant double kiss, our words of sex and spirituality are always lip to lip : ecstasy, communion, surrender, passion, mystery, devotion. As St Theresa said, "All the way to heaven is heaven." In the poetic text of Lesbian Sacred Sexuality, flesh plumes, the interior castle glistens. Buddha women enkindle the breath within the breath, warming spine wine, mandala eyes penetrate. Here, Lesbian camera subjects, unlike models, open their soft core, teaching how the mind tells stories, how the body forgives. One question: Just where is this dark room of photographer Marcelina Martin? A fragrant cedar forest where lightening struck a rushing mountain stream, releasing the essence of heavenly fire? To her anointments of light, I offer salty incense as valleys overflow. -Celeste West, author Lesbian Love Advisor.

Lesbian Sacred Sexuality , the  book on lesbian sexuality with commentaries and meditations by Diane Mariechild, interviews and photographs of twelve  lesbian couples on the nature of the Sacred , and erotic poetry by six lesbian writers has now been made into a multimedia video. Marcelina Martin's  photographs of the couples are stunning. Don't miss it.

The dominant view of sexuality in our society is anti-erotic. We are constantly overwhelmed by images that reinforce how the physical has been separated from the psychic, emotional, and spiritual connection. Our sense of the grace of sexuality becomes lost.  Restoring the erotic as wholesome is difficult because it has been distorted through power-over interactions, violence as sex, and lust without reverence. To experience dynamic relatedness and to integrate one's sexuality and spirituality are huge contributions to the evolution of life-affirming consciousness.

 Mindfulness about our true attitudes towards ourselves and our sexuality is particularly essential for the lesbian community. We have endured many kinds of oppression, but hatred has focused mainly on our sexuality. Most of us have not escaped internalized homophobia. In order to transform these injurious images and feelings, we must ferret out and replace the negative with the life-affirming. By imaging ourselves as whole in our own visual language, we dissolve the prevalent, spurious definitions of our lives.Making contact with the sacred and committing our sexuality to the realm of spiritual practice is the primary focus of Lesbian Sacred Sexuality. We can imbue our lives with love and devotion to the sacred and to wholeness. To experience the interconnectedness of all life, our perception of Eros, or self-preservation, is changed forever. Developing this state of reverence towards all life is a great contribution towards preserving and healing our planet.
 

 

"Vision", Marcelina Martin 1998

I nestle into the body of our Sacred Earth The wisdom of marsh and sand enters me  I swim silently through the dark and winding waters of the Ogeechee The sky opens to reveal a universe  without time  All this in one moment of touching your body  All this in one moment  of breathing your breath Suddenly drenched by the Divine Marcelina Martin, 1994

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