However, we are all created as sexual beings and sex, or sexuality, also has a much wider sense in which the love held within the soul is expressed through our sexuality in warmth, affection and tenderness, without
an erotic element, and done so in an appropriate way depending on the persons involved.
Instead of just calling them sexist, Coakley suggests, we might use the tools of feminist discourse to see how they allowed
an erotic element into their understanding of the Trinity, thereby subverting the male mode of passionless thought.
Healthy spirituality acknowledges and incorporates
the erotic element in our efforts to seek God.
And again, we're not talking about 50 Shades of fuckery — I write short stories with
an erotic element, not graphic depictions of how one might tongue punch someone's fart box.
Packed with uncompromisingly brainy ideas and dialogue along with its political and
erotic elements, «Professor Marston» took awhile to find funding.
As for
the erotic elements, I use them formally, without any embellishment.