Resumo

RESS, Mary Judith. Hetera, el arquetipo de nuestra energía erótica. Revista Venezolana de Estudios de la Mujer [online]. 2007, vol.12, n.29, pp.17-31. ISSN 1316-3701.

In this article a mythology-based reflection is presented on female sexuality and the energy where it comes from, a text viewed as a base to elucidate the ideological patterns used by patriarchal cultures to discipline this female sexuality. It is not surprising that in all cultures the sexuality has been subjected by controls from rituals and taboos. The agnostic relation kept by woman with her own body goes as outcome in which a negation is made of the most deep and secret areas. Today we are sure that nothing can be changed whether the female is devaluated, the body is denigrated and if we do not believe in the universe of sacredness. After all, we are not only sex, but something deeper. The present-day job is to accept the body as spiritual and the sexuality and erotic love both as spiritual disciplines.

Palavras-chave : Sexuality; Ideology; Patriarchal culture; Sacredness.