The oppressive systems have created a “false belief” of the erotic with pornography, creating a “distrust” and “fear” in women of their erotic power. In an effort to avoid change, the oppressive systems must corrupt our connection with the erotic. In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various source of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change” (Lorde 53). She writes, “ erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling. Basically, the erotic is a source of power that has the ability to create change. In Audre Lorde’s essay, “Uses of the Erotic,” she discusses the cost of the detachment of the erotic as a source of power and the effect its loss has on women’s existence.
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