http://carriedanielle.disqus.com/The go-to place for information, inspiration and how-to content on topics ranging from Beauty and Relationships to Wealth and Wellness.enFri, 18 Jul 2008 13:05:21 -0000http://carrieanddanielle.com/the-politics-of-sensuality-claim-it-baby-claim-it/#comment-2592282The book, Cunt, was a soul-cracker for me as well. Bought 10 copies and gave them to my staff (in a secret meeting) and then got them all copies of Princessa. Checked out your art. Delish.Danielle LaPorteFri, 18 Jul 2008 13:05:21 -0000http://carrieanddanielle.com/the-politics-of-sensuality-claim-it-baby-claim-it/#comment-2592281I've read Meditation Secrets for Women and it's TREMENDOUS. I asked my husband (with the most soporific voice) to read one of the them into a recorder. I put it on my iPod and bliss out. (If you read it out yourself, you may focus too much on the sound of your own voice...best to use someone else's I find - provided they don't stutter.)Karryn RansomFri, 18 Jul 2008 12:42:36 -0000http://carrieanddanielle.com/the-politics-of-sensuality-claim-it-baby-claim-it/#comment-2592280ZING! That sentence,“Let there be no mistake: to live from your foundation in deep pleasure is a political act of power.”, is something I instinctively knew as a child, protected as a teenager, and deliciously lived as a young adult. Something must have slipped from under me, because I have those powerful moments of "recommitting" like Jamie when I read something like that sentence, Jamie's words, this blog. The power of sensuality is like the roar of the ocean. I had forgotten about it in between waves.<br>2 years ago I was knocked off my feet when I read Inga Muscio's declaration of independence, Cunt. It hit me with deeply familiarity like the smell of my childhood bedroom, and at the same time with the amazement of an entirely new idea. Like a part of my own full self I had forgotten.<br>Thank you for this post, Carrie, Danielle and Jamie!<br>I'm off to sneak my hand into a bin of dry lentils at the market and feel the cool heavy texture while no one is watching.<br>Or, maybe while somebody is. ;)DanetteFri, 18 Jul 2008 12:02:04 -0000http://carrieanddanielle.com/the-politics-of-sensuality-claim-it-baby-claim-it/#comment-2592279YES! As soon as I read sensous vs. sensual I thought sensual is power because it implies that energy is directed outward and is more active in nature. The world is very frightened of women's sensuality and I think women are frightened of their own (I know I can be and hear myself saying "tone it down Courtney, don't be too out there"). I think we know as women that our sensuality and sexuality are our power source - and fear that this can get us is big trouble. And of course if everyone lived from a place of pleasure and open expression rather than struggle and witholding, I'm certain the world would explode :)!!CourtneyFri, 18 Jul 2008 11:55:50 -0000