Research
We are living in a time where pornography has become humanity’s largest sexual education platform. The constrictive, destructive norms communicated by profit-driven porn are making us sick and lonely.
The widespread loss of eldership, who can unflinchingly teach us how to holistically wield eros, is leaving humanity with a world of distortion, sexual violence, trauma and apathy.
Our Anatomy is building a culture of community inquiry, asking ourselves how to respond to this complexity. Through Participatory Action Research gatherings we turn our lived experience into shared insight that marks the path toward meaningful change.
Our Anatomy did not begin in relationship with elders. It began because we could not find images that were anywhere near good enough to teach sexual education. When we sat down to make better images, we realized that we needed to do research to understand what could actually be helpful.
Cross polination with mentors, guides and fellow researchers from the Andean and Amazonian traditions remind us to look toward the crucial role eros plays in every aspect of life.
Together, we are reviving a systemic perspective that the earthbody is actually the most potent, sensual, sexual, erotic, healing,
Our organs of origin connect us with our divine place of origin. The health and sovereignty of that connection deeply impacts our sense of self. For this reason, Our Anatomy is focusing on the organs of origin as a starting point for our research into human potential. We believe that much of the violence, apathy and loneliness on Earth is related to the suppression of and misinformation about eros, pleasure and sexuality.
Participatory Action Research provides a structure for Our Anatomy to study ancestral wisdom and modern stories about what our bodies are and what they are for- to study and learn how to be gracious, responsible stewards of the erotic life force energy.
From our research findings, we are designing pedagogic materials and creating learning environments to meet the educational needs pornography is filling. We attend to important subjects and experiences that public school curriculums and medical text books do not touch.
Our goal is to:
increase accessibility to accurate, affirming, sex positive materials for learning about the organs of origin in the context of an ancestral worldview.
show that eros is not only relevant to human sexual contexts by engaging a systemic perspective that includes the wild animacy of our earthly body.
create accurate, beautiful anatomical art painted from life in a caring, consensual environment that includes a personal story from the model, who is a part of the research team.
offer art and stories that speak to the curiosity about anatomy, power, relationship, pleasure, pain, arousal, ability, gender identity and sexual preference
Decrease sexual violence by creating pedagogic materials that increase empathy, advocacy, and the ability to talk about sexual pleasure, sexual orientation and sexual abuse between people of all genders.
Increase bonding in sexual relationships by offering materials that help people understand and talk about the anatomy of arousal.
