Chicago Pride Center

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Serving Chicago's LGBTQ communities with affirming, client-centered
behavioral health and substance use treatment

Powerful words by 11-year-old, Ruben. 🥹 Thank you @experiencecamps for sharing this with the world.....#grief #griefandloss #griefsupport #goodmourning #griefquotes #grieving #griefresource #griefcommunity

07/25/2023

Wisdom...

Powerful words by 11-year-old, Ruben. 🥹 Thank you @experiencecamps for sharing this with the world.....#grief #griefandloss #griefsupport #goodmourning #griefquotes #grieving #griefresource #griefcommunity

Last month on Bill Maher’s show Real Time with Bill Maher, I illuminated the difference between sexuality and eroticism, between a perfunctory act and the multi-sensory journey of pleasure. Many of us, when it comes to sexuality, tend to do what we think we should do rather than what we’d like to be doing (and this is not just a statement about women). We get stuck in ruts and disconnect from our imaginations. We would love to experience new things with our partners but we can be afraid to invite ourselves or them. A minor annoyance or a major impasse can both be catalysts for shutting down sexually. Sometimes we’re “not in the mood;” other times we wonder if we’ve lost what once made us desirable to our partners.We tend to think of these as sexual issues. Really, it’s an erotic dilemma. Contrary to what we are taught, eroticism isn’t purely sexual; it is sexuality transformed and socialized by the human imagination. The imagination creates the plot. Flirtation, longing, and anticipation all play within our mind’s eye. Engaging in eroticism enables us to maintain a sense of aliveness, vibrancy, and vitality. As Octavio Paz has implied, eroticism is the poetry of the body the way that poetry is the eroticism of language.

05/17/2023

Last month on Bill Maher’s show Real Time with Bill Maher, I illuminated the difference between sexuality and eroticism, between a perfunctory act and the multi-sensory journey of pleasure. Many of us, when it comes to sexuality, tend to do what we think we should do rather than what we’d like to be doing (and this is not just a statement about women). We get stuck in ruts and disconnect from our imaginations. We would love to experience new things with our partners but we can be afraid to invite ourselves or them. A minor annoyance or a major impasse can both be catalysts for shutting down sexually. Sometimes we’re “not in the mood;” other times we wonder if we’ve lost what once made us desirable to our partners.We tend to think of these as sexual issues. Really, it’s an erotic dilemma. Contrary to what we are taught, eroticism isn’t purely sexual; it is sexuality transformed and socialized by the human imagination. The imagination creates the plot. Flirtation, longing, and anticipation all play within our mind’s eye. Engaging in eroticism enables us to maintain a sense of aliveness, vibrancy, and vitality. As Octavio Paz has implied, eroticism is the poetry of the body the way that poetry is the eroticism of language.

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Category

Psychotherapists

Website

http://www.chicagopridecenter.com/

Address

4809 North Ravenswood
Chicago, IL
60640

Opening Hours

Monday	12pm - 9pm
Tuesday	12pm - 9pm
Wednesday	12pm - 9pm
Thursday	12pm - 9pm
Friday	12pm - 9pm