Felicia reflects on the question, “Why did you get divorced?” and traces an answer through embodied pleasure, the deadness she refused, and the ways women’s sexuality is outsourced and commodified. An intimate meditation on erotic aliveness, consent, and coming home to the Divinity inside our cells.
Key Takeaways
Self-pleasure can be a practice of presence, not performance.
Women’s sexuality is often commodified and policed; liberation must be self-owned, not traded.
Erotic aliveness counters numbness and “deadness,” reconnecting imagination, emotion, and sensation.
Safety is the precondition for opening; the body tells the truth first.
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