Nicole Daedone
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April 25, 2025
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True Arousal Is the Only Protection

As women, we are, in a sense, vast open space. But without a certain kind of boundary or protection,
that openness can become a vulnerability. In the realm of Eros, that protection isn’t armor—it’s true arousal.

True arousal organizes the identity around your unique energetic expression. It becomes your boundary. Without this, you become like Velcro—attaching to projections, concepts, and ideas that aren’t yours.

Women without this rooted arousal conform. They drift. They unconsciously align with whatever energy or view is strongest in the room. 
They mistake the eyes looking at them as reality, and then contort themselves to fit that view.

But a woman with true arousal, with a concrete sense of self, does not get hexed by someone else’s judgment.

She doesn’t bend.
She doesn’t accommodate.
She sees it, and stays rooted.
Throughout your day, you can start to notice 
this dynamic: How, when you’re with someone, you subtly hear the instruction of who to be.

Then, watch how your energy either conforms—or doesn’t. If you keep building arousal, if you keep pulling the Velcro 
back to yourself, you don’t have to be what anyone sees you as.

Because often, what you’re responding to isn’t just someone’s gaze—it’s their unbridled consumption. And if you don’t have a boundary, you reinforce that in him.

Many women think they’re obsessed. Or under someone’s spell. But the truth is, it’s the projection that you haven’t created a boundary around. You’re not obsessed. 
You’re just without boundaries.
This is why we, as women, must be profoundly with arousal. Profoundly with self.

Otherwise, we end up performing a kind of karmic misdeed—feeding the worst in people. What’s often mistaken as a compliment—“you’re so soft, so malleable”—is actually the wolf speaking: “You’re so easy to consume. You have no boundaries.” When you cultivate enough arousal, you don’t even offer a glimpse unless someone is rising into the highest version of themselves.

This is how sexual energy 
becomes a force for upliftment, not consumption. Most women just 
want to go passive. That’s the temptation: to drift, to be carried down the romantic river.

But the only thing that carries you down that river is the projection—your own bondage. So instead, you trade in 
the delusion of romance 
for actual contact. And actual contact is not dreamy. It’s moment-by-moment, real-time adjustment. With him and with yourself. Because only by moving through the projection you meet 
the true person, 
not the masks, not the residue of 
past encounters, but the naked truth of 
who they are. That, only that, is what a woman in arousal will receive.

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