Fantasy, escapism, and imagination are fundamental components of your mind. They play crucial roles in your emotional well-being, as well as our societal progress, and also allow you, as a person, to explore possibilities that lie beyond the constraints of reality.
By allowing your mind to construct scenarios and worlds that go beyond your everyday experience, you give it the chance to delve into concepts you’ve never considered, and even roleplay scenarios you’ve never encountered before: Want to submit to a strong, dominant woman? In the realm of fantasy, you can. How about running off into the sunset with your own sexy cowboy? Guess what, within a story, it’s possible!
Sex and sexuality have always been a driving force within society. From the first cave paintings to the advancement of the digital age, it’s sex that has pushed us forward.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge,” – Albert Einstein
Not only is engaging in fantasy essential to our cognitive development, it’s also the key to our societal progression. Fantasy serves as a form of emotional regulation, as well as providing us with a safe space for us to process complex emotions, fears, and desires. It’s through imagination that we explore ourselves and what it means to be us. Through activities like reading, writing, and daydreaming, we can examine different aspects of our identity and experience catharsis.
Whether it be through vicarious attachment to a character or the act of writing itself, stories allow us to enter a world that only ever exists within the mind. It’s this very fact that means stories, by their quintessential nature, are a safe haven for all, and grant us a space in which we can confront our deepest fears as well as our wildest fantasies. It’s this act of exploration that can lead us to greater self-awareness and emotional maturity.
Stories reflect every aspect of the human condition precisely because they’re an exploration of it. There’s no reason why an erotic tale of a couple that meet in a night club can’t be as thrilling as a murder mystery, or as heart wrenching as a Shakespearian tragedy. In fact, I’d encourage it. Allowing for multiple emotions to be stirred up in your reader drives them deeper into the narrative and allows them to invest in the outcome.
Life isn’t monotone, and your story should reflect that. Allow your reader respite from all the drama, let lulls in your story happen, and watch what emerges. Giving your audience that breathing space will make the emotional impact of your climax all the more powerful, and your readers will thank you for it.
After all, humans aren’t all the same; we don’t all like vanilla, and even if you do, why allow your fantasy to be filtered by just one shade of grey?
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Julia Rivers Erotic Audio and Writing 