Kate Freeman – Sex and sensuality

The Sex & Sensuality Track’s vision is to provide time and space to explore how the acceptance and embrace of our whole selves intersects with the connection to others. By setting the intention of being radically intimate – willing to be seen, truly seen, for who we are in all our glorious messiness – we hope participants will better see inside themselves and in others as they are invited to connect and co-create experiences that are sensual, erotic, romantic, expressive, creative, playful, kinky, wild, healing, funny, and ultimately empowering.

Our track affirms that relationships to sex & sensuality are complex, contextual, and unique. We will strive to create a space for each person’s need to heal or feel safe with a collective desire for pleasure. We acknowledge that connecting to the sexual and sensual self can emerge in many ways from opening our bodies through movement to awakening our senses through targeted stimulation to sharing our hearts through vulnerable dialogue. Within a non-judgmental space prioritizing accurate information and individual choice, we believe that there is potential for self-transformation that expands our perspectives on what we’ve been taught about our bodies, personal power, and ability to feel a spectrum of ecstasy.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Track contributors who can create experiences, lead workshops, or host conversations for this track. We aspire to curate diverse experiences for all genders, sizes, ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, cultures, abilities, faiths, and desires.

What is Seduction ?

Seduction has multiple meanings. Platonically, it can mean “to persuade to disobedience or disloyalty”, or “to lead astray, usually by persuasion or false promises”.

Strategies of seduction include conversation and sexual scripts, paralingual features, non-verbal communication, and short-term behavioural strategies. The word seduction stems from Latin and means literally “leading astray.” As a result, the term may have a positive or negative connotation. Famous seducers from history or legend include Lilith, Giacomo Casanova, and the fictional character Don Juan. The emergence of the Internet and technology has supported the availability and the existence of a seduction community, which is based on discourse about seduction. This is predominately by “pickup artists” (PUA). Seduction is also used within marketing to increase compliance and willingness.

Seduction, seen negatively, involves temptation and enticement, often sexual in nature, to lead someone astray into a behavioural choice they would not have made if they were not in a state of sexual arousal. Seen positively, seduction is a synonym for the act of charming someone—male or female—by an appeal to the senses, often with the goal of reducing unfounded fears and leading to their “sexual emancipation.” Some sides in contemporary academic debate state that the morality of seduction depends on the long-term impacts on the individuals concerned, rather than the act itself, and may not necessarily carry the negative connotations expressed in dictionary definitions.

Kate Freeman – Sex and sensuality

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