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The euphoric high
Hysteria
“Hysteria, in its colloquial use, describes unmanageable emotional excesses. Female hysteria was a once-common medical diagnosis. Women considered to be suffering from it exhibited a wide array of symptoms, including faintness, nervousness, sexual desire, insomnia, muscle spasm, shortness of breath, irritability, loss of appetite for food or sex, and 'a tendency to cause trouble'. Typical treatment was massage of the patient's genitalia by the physician and, later, by vibrators or water sprays to cause orgasm. In extreme cases, the woman might be forced to enter an insane asylum or to undergo surgical hysterectomy.” ― (from Wikipedia) Interior
Luxuria
"Lust is not only a sin, but a capital sin; that is, a root sin, the cause of other sins. This is because the pleasures of sex are so intense, and so universally and naturally desired, that men are driven, in pursuit of them, to commit other sins." ― (from The Elements of Moral Theology)
La petite mort
La petite mort is a French phrase meaning literally “the little death”. It can also describe a short period of malaise, transcendence, or climax that comes with the metaphorical expenditure of your life force, which can be explained by the release of a large amount of oxytocin in the brain after an event like an orgasm. ― (from WriteWorld)
Blind darkness
When my eyes could not see, sounds forged the image and touch became my gaze. Scents gave the picture colours and taste brought it alive. Darkness kills the light but it cannot kill the physical experience. In a way, darkness itself is blind as it cannot see the light. Blindness is bliss because in the dark everyone is equal and shame does not exist. Ultimately, the blind man is free as he does not see his own limits. ― (Rimini, 2015)
Naked daisies
The female nude is nature's most beautiful form. In its most profound sense, what one considers beautiful is a positive reflection about the meaning of one's own existence. Nudity is not sex nor pornography. It is the human form reduced into its purest state, uncensored and untainted. Pure as naked daisies in a spring meadow.
The euphoric high
"Euphoria is often colloquially used to define emotion and an intense state of transcendent happiness combined with an overwhelming sense of contentment. It has also been defined as an 'affective state of exaggerated well-being or elation'. Certain drugs, many of which are addictive, are known to produce a euphoric state, also referred to as the euphoric high. Certain natural rewards (associated with addictive behavior) such as physical exercise can also induce brief states of euphoria. Euphoria is also known to occur as a symptom of mania." ― (from Wikipedia)
Hysteria
“Hysteria, in its colloquial use, describes unmanageable emotional excesses. Female hysteria was a once-common medical diagnosis. Women considered to be suffering from it exhibited a wide array of symptoms, including faintness, nervousness, sexual desire, insomnia, muscle spasm, shortness of breath, irritability, loss of appetite for food or sex, and 'a tendency to cause trouble'. Typical treatment was massage of the patient's genitalia by the physician and, later, by vibrators or water sprays to cause orgasm. In extreme cases, the woman might be forced to enter an insane asylum or to undergo surgical hysterectomy.” ― (from Wikipedia)
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"Who are you? What do you know to be true? What do you question? What are your obsessions? A photograph which is not about photography, or about style, or confined to a category but a photography that transcends all of this. Photography as a revelation of what it means to be alive - for the photographer and the life depicted." ― Michael Ackerman
Narcotic insurrection
“I use photography as a weapon. It allows me to face reality. Barbarous celebrations of the flesh dissolve in the reality of crime or deviance. The narcotic insurrection is a form of cancer that devours order: morals might be a matter of patience. Carnal and narcotic disorders are both the symptom and the antidote, the last possible means of a desperate struggle to deny the strength of economic order, not to survive but to exist. In the frantic search for ecstasy, intensity of sensations nourishes a space of loneliness and despair, a desert of social forms.” ― Antoine D'Agata