http://ping.fm/wp8np Aphrodite's tale starts with a violent birth with absent parents and a castrated father. We could affirm that Aphrodite, like all of us, was expelled from the paradisical harmony of the womb/ocean and into a earth where she is left to face the dense and frightening realization of her aloneness. Aphrodite, in her unconscious desire to constitute or mend the primary bond, turns to sex.