There are several reasons why I'm interested in these subjects. One reason is that I am writing a new novel that will be titled The Book of the Courtesans. The themes in this novel are related to pleasure, sensuality, sexuality, freedom, power, politics, history, spirituality, and social mores.
I haven't yet worked out the whole plot, but I know that it will be a story about a school where women are trained to be courtesans. The narrator of the story will be an older woman who runs the school and trains the woman. They are also tutored by a handsome man with a rakish character, sort like Casanova.
The novel will express a feminist philosophy, but not from the typical radical perspective. It seems that from the beginning of the dark ages, people were taught to believe that anything bodily or earthly was evil. People also associated the feminine with all things of the body and earth, but the fact that these things were considered evil by the church, meant that women were the bearers of evil. The story of Adam and Eve is a perfect example of this.
Unfortunately, many radical feminists want to make men and women equal by taking the feminine out of being female, which also means that to see women as sexual or sensual beings is "degrading." Yet, the truth is that women are very sensual and sexual beings and this is part of our virtue.
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An interesting slant on this can be found by looking at Japanese literature from the Heian period. Most of the authors were women and many wrote what were called erotic novels. Sometimes shocking to find this kind of writing so early in history (around 1100), by women, and in Japan. They've gone downhill from there.
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