In our sexually repressed culture, we are taught to keep the more perverse and primitive parts of sexual desire hidden and secret — so deeply, in fact, most of us don't even know they are there.

Most people have a complex and authentic sexual persona as distinct to each of us as a fingerprint and as inherent as eye color. We may not consciously acknowledge it, but it still operates below the surface of our awareness. This complexity includes primal, emotional, physical and mythic archetypal dimensions of the sexual persona that blend together to become the full spectrum of human sexual experience.

There are light aspects and shadow aspects to each of our sexual personas — the parts we show and the parts we hide. There may be tender, sweet aspects, as well as more primitive, wild, and instinctual aspects.