Citing the source of the erotic in the Greek eros, born of Chaos, Audre Lorde writes in her essay “Uses of the Erotic”: This is one reason why the erotic is so feared, and so often relegated to the bedroom alone. . . . For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. . . . This is a grave responsibility . . . not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.*
