Devotional Activities for Aphrodite and Eros

Devotional Activities for Aphrodite and Eros

Bring beauty into your world with scent, flowers, fabric, food, and light.
Dress up, and seduce your partner.
Indulge in some harmless flirtation.
Enjoy your physical self: get a massage, visit a spa, get an aromatherapy treatment.
Learn about the lives of sex workers. Examine your prejudices about them. Support prostitutes’ rights.
Learn about new sexual techniques. Read sex-positive books.
Attend a seminar on sex.
Dedicate your orgasms to Aphrodite.
In honor of Aphrodite Pandemos, acknowledge the sexualities of all people, regardless of age, physical ability, body type, or sexual orientation.
Take a sensuous bubble bath.
Read myths about Aphrodite and Ares, and meditate on the relationship between sex and anger.
What are your attitudes toward multiple sexual relationships?
What constitutes “infidelity” to you? Are you open to polyamory?
Read Sappho’s lyrics; she was especially devoted to the Cyprian and wrote a number of beautiful hymns to her.

From:
Campbell, Drew. Old Stones, New Temples: Ancient Greek Paganism Reborn. Xlibris, p. 58.