Sensuality Human and Divine

What about Sensuality?
Sensuality has different meanings to different people.
Our definitions depend on where we’re coming from – psychology, religion, spirituality, philosophy, and so on.

Essentially, sensuality is our ability to accept and manifest the passions or pleasures suggested by our senses: hearing, seeing, feeling,smelling, and tasting.Your response could be positive or otherwise.

You wouldn’t want to be wikipeding this, would you?
All you get there is a boring thesis on the psychology of the senses. But boiled down to its essence, you
understand sensuality to mean pleasures from those feelings, and those feelings mostly climax in sexualor parasexual gratifications.

The Sensual You
Man,as Sigmund Freud’s psycho-sexual analysis puts it, is basically motivated by pleasure,sexual pleasures,at every level of his development.
Although his carnal theory was unsung then. Maybe because the stage of human development at that time hadn’t risen to the current explosive stage of self-discovery and self-actualisation – of Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

But now, Freud is as right as the pope, his sensual theory as relevant as the day.
Politics, commerce, entertainment, sports, religion, science and technology, are all after discovering and enjoying the best of man that appeals to man’s eyes, man’s ears, and man’s erotic feeling .

The likes of Joe Biden and other finicky American politicians undergo costly facial surgery to remove furrows. Rihana’s total face lift, and Michael Jackson’s ultra plastic surgery are few examples of crazy extents people have gone to enhance their sensual selves. Everybody wants to appeal to everybody.

Sensuality,your Nature
The factors underlying the mad quest to appeal to or seduce others is our nature.
Man’s nature requires appreciation by others. The wickedest of men, Adolph Hitler, had this need, too.
His pretty cousin was his first victim who was forced to meet his sadist need.She was holed up in his apartment solely for sexual relations.
And so did many heroes and villains of the world ever un-folding drama. Napoleon Bonarparte, Alexander The Great, The Buddha, in his youth, and many others.

Here Sigmund shines again.
At the consummate level of this appreciate-me feelings is what he calls the genital stage. Maslow would call it love(sexual)need. And almost everybody has or craves the need – eunuch , popes monks, nuns and what have you.
You all have the senses that respond to those sexual (sensual )stimuli. Some would master theirs while others are just helpless. Remember Jesse Jackson and his secretary, Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, the past World Bank president and his co-worker?

It’s just human to swallow at the sight of flat abs of full-breasted, slim ladies like Angelina Jollie; to blush on seeing muscular frames that speak in deep voice like David Beckham’s. Its simply natural.

You see all brands of sex use and abuse in Hollywood, YOUTUBE, teevee and print. How about those primordial cultures in Africa and Asia where sexuality or sensuality is still very crude and non-techy ?
Call this hedonism. Deny it. Demonise it. But it’s real.
Everybody is its victim – positively or negatively.

Sensuality and Spirituality
Some ascetics – monks, fathers, nuns – try to prove the possibility of a sanctity without sensuality. But all their efforts are self-conceited means of atoning for their past warped sexuality. And on occasions, the old man still rares up his hard head in response to some stunning sight to behold.
Church history has it that Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism, formerly a celibate in the Catholic Church, after being enlightened, married off all the nuns in a nunnery. The last one he took home.
Papal history also revealed how debauched some of the popes were in spite of their oath of celibacy.

Today, as we see it, spirituality – or nirvana – comes not only during concentration but also in the fit of transmuted orgasmic attraction or sex.
New Age, Pentecostalism, Taoism and others confirm this. Or how do we explain the repeated emphasis on virginity, and the crazy desire for virgins by the religious? What’s in a virgin – if not her spiritual aura of sexual innocence, and the awesome attraction of her raw erogenous zones? Her breasts, her temple (forehead), her neck, her backside – as that oversexed King Solomon describes her in even the Bible.

You’re Responsible
It’s crystal-clear now that you either shape up or ship out: transmute your sensuality or leave behind times,or let it ruin you.
Ignorance of this doesn’t even matter any longer if it makes or breaks you.You’ve got the whole wide world(web) heaving with good information on positive use of your sensual you.