This ethic is not prescriptive for anyone. By all means, have all the sex you want with whomever you want, or don’t. I hope you enjoy it. This is simply an ideal to strive for, a better framework and a better experience of sex with our partners in whatever context we find them. This is a Jewish ethic and must be based in text. But it is based in new kinds of Torah, and as such it must recognize the dissonance between God and man and religion, and recognize the awesome potential to expand the framework. It must be wrestled with and argued over. This is not an ethic for everyone, nor is it an ethic for every Jew. It is an idea of how observant Jews- might face the challenges of post-modernism and boldly move forward while still retaining the identity of Torah-Judaism. Jewrotica is this new Torah, providing space for experience, confession, advice, knowledge and paradigm shifts, and means of production.
Jewrotica comes to celebrate all fantasies, experiences, challenges, and desires. It is media as a platform for the transmission of a continued multiplicity of revelations, building a community of We-Thou, and the space to move forward together. There is an idea in Judaism that every idea, every word, every letter of the Torah has 70 “faces,” or interpretations, and all are correct; all are the word of God. We must remember the 70 faces, many of which we have yet to see, as we find space for all to be citizens in the slow walk from real to ideal.
83 – Cisneros, Sandra, This Is How You Lose Her, By Junot Díaz, (New York: Riverhead, 2012).
84 – Janson, H. W., and H. W. Janson. Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2011) 687.
85 – Horstman, Judith, The Scientific American Book of Love, Sex, and the Brain: The Neuroscience of How, When, Why, and Who We Love (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2012) 187.
86 – Buber (I and Thou) 62.
87 – Buber (I and Thou) 62.
88 – Buber (I and Thou) 156-157.
89 – Westheimer, Ruth K., and Jonathan Mark, Heavenly Sex: Sexuality in the Jewish Tradition (New York: Continuum, 1996) 15.
90 – Schwyzer, Hugo, “My Sweet Boy, My Goy Toy,” Jewrotica. (N.p., 13 Nov 2012: Web Nov 2012) .
91 – Plato, The Symposium (New York: Penguin, 2006) 27-29.
92 – Plato (The Symposium) 31.
93 – Clack, Beverley, “Virgins and Vessels: Feminist Reflections on Dominant Models of Spirituality,” Religion and Sexuality, Ed. Michael A. Hayes, Wendy Porter, and David Tombs (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1998) 244-245.
94 – Hacking, Ian, “Our Neo‐Cartesian Bodies in Parts,” (Critical Inquiry 34.1, 2007) 78-105.
95 – Plato (Symposium) 32.
96 – Marcus, Bat Sheva, “Sex and Holiness,” Jewrotica (N.p., 15 Aug 2012: Web Dec 2012) .
97 – Genesis 24:67
98 – 2 Samuel 11
99 – 2 Samuel 1:26
100 – Ruth 3:7
101 – Westheimer (Heavenly Sex) 71.
102 – Biale, David, Eros and the Jews: From Biblical Israel to Contemporary America (Berkeley: University of California, 1997) 20.
103 – Westheimer (Heavenly Sex) 70-71.
104 – Westheimer (Heavenly Sex) 59.
105 – Buber (I and Thou) 135.
106 – Ruttenberg, Danya, The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism (New York: New York UP, 2009) 4.
107 – Buber (I and Thou) 84.
108 – Winkler (Sacred Secrets) 96.
109 – Winkler (Sacred Secrets) 97.
110 – Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Berakhot 25b.
Celebrating 10 Years & Marking the End of An Amazing Project
Celebrating 10 Years & Marking the End of An Amazing Project
I stepped out of my comfort zone to be a part of this. I was glad to open up the topic of sexuality in my community. We are trying to build a safe space to talk about sex. The result I am most happy about coming from this event is that hopefully now my friends know they can come and talk to me, that I can be their ‘safe space’.
I’m into Jewrotica. I went in for my second circumcision.
Jewrotica is a great way to ask interesting questions about the interplay between sensuality and Jewish wisdom. Check it out.
Jewrotica is inspiring Jews and erotica with holiness and coolness, and is the pride of progressive Judaism. Jewrotica – awesome!
At Jewrotica’s Evening of Bedside Readings, students declaimed monologues on sexual encounters that had a Jewish twist. At Columbia/Barnard Hillel, the speakers pushed their own boundaries by performing a range of explicit narratives that challenged how the audience thought of the relationship to Judaism and sex. During the speakers’ preparation, the arguments about which narratives would be appropriate forced students to take a stand and voice their opinion on their own beliefs about Judaism an… Read more
Jewrotica was everything I had dreamed of and more: sexy attendees, tantalizing confessions, and well-written literature to boot! More importantly, it empowers us Jews to reach inside and own our sexy selves and heritage!
While many people fear the “sex talk,” Jewrotica offers an opportunity for writers and audiences to speak about sexuality in a open and safe space. When I attended a Jewrotica reading, I heard stories that reminded me that love takes many forms, and that expressing it is a vital part of who we are as a people.
Such an amazing experience! The Sarah Lawrence Jewrotica workshop was more than I could have ever expected – a comfortable, safe, sultry environment where participants clearly felt good about sharing or listening to each other’s intimate experiences and relating them to sexy stories from the Torah. From the moment the workshop began, Ayo had a sweet presence that was kinetic and spread around the room; her storytelling abilities had everyone enraptured and made the conversation topics relata… Read more
Bedside Reading with Jewrotica was funny, sexy, and hot all at once. The readings were honest about all kinds of sexuality, but the highlight of the evening was definitely the confessions, written by audience participants. Nobody knew who wrote them, and most were tell-alls that would make your bubbe blush. Unless your bubbe was very, very cool. Then maybe she’d make YOU blush!
Learning about sex and what’s right and wrong when it comes to sex from a Biblical standpoint was an eye opening experience. I completely enjoyed it and think something like this could be a very cool thing to bring to even high school aged Jewish youth groups.
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