Sapphic Art

It will continue as long as men feel threatened by the autonomy of “the other sex”.

Women such as Gerda Wegener, Margit Gaal, Susanne Ballivet, Charlotte Behrend-Corinth, and others created works in celebration of love.

Homosexuality may be contrary to culturally conditioned norms but it is one of the basic forms of the possible variations of human love.

Plato’s spherical human beings find their way back to their original wholeness for an instant when they are freed from their mono-sexuality by projection and identification

Female sexuality is infantilised, indeed negated, as “fooling around”.

The phallocratic attempt to masculinise the lesbian woman must be regarded as a failed attempt to re-establish the phallus as the central focus of sexuality.

There is no doubt that the general anti-feminism of countless theologians owed its origin to a latent fear of women.

the Goddess Bona Dea

Each of us is, therefore one half of a spherical being because we have been cut in two. Everyone is continually in search of his or her other half.

“why two seek to become one since we were once unseparated wholes. The desire and the striving towards wholeness are thus given the name of Eros.”