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All the body parts focused on in the following essays can become the subject of poetry as much as of fetish: an ecstatic face, a beautiful backside, breasts, a leg or a foot. Through the psychoanalytically oriented cultural-historical approach it becomes obvious that the body, as we experience it, is not something naturally given, but rather, first of all, something historical. Other essays in this volume deal with the oral and the sense of taste. The oral desire, as well as sense of taste, are modes of sensual appropriation of the world; as this book is illustrated with pictures of erotic art, the sense of sight should be appealed to equally. The chapter “Delights of a Whip” and “Lesbos” refer not only to real gender-relationships – the phantasm that they are based on is even more significant. The central phantasm, essential to both the history of culture and of life, is the “phallus.” As a Basso Continuo, it is present in every sexual maturing, even when its power is renounced.

“There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom”: An awareness of the bodily that can bridge the separation between body and spirit and allow the body to be understood as a cultural-historical product has yet to develop. Everything that is exclusively erotic, however, joins together in praising the whole body:

So we would like to praise the Body duly,

Pay homage to it as to Lord and Master,

So that the sprit, that only nourishes thoughts,

Without body, neither happiness nor sorrow does excite us:

The Body makes its energy praiseworthy,

The force that completes us, consumes us.[29]