The first section of this poem deals with gender and sex. While writing this, I was thinking of the way sexual relationships and gender predispositions have changed and have been challenged in society, particularly in regards to women. Because I am female and have been a victim of sexual discrimination in sexual relationships, this writing arose out of that subjectivity. Men have almost always been able to use sex as a weapon, but women can now too.
Women are now more aware of their own sexuality and the power that sex can have over men, or women.
I have never viewed sex as purely a means of procreation. Sure, it is our natural way to reproduce, but sex was always so much more, and is. Sex is primal, natural, powerful and pleasurable and it annoyed me that everything I read or watched about sex treated it as a biological means of survival, or as an act pleasurable only to the man. The second part of this poem is less involved than the first. It deals with notions of the Self.