| About Cirkus Eros - an English Summary |
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Cirkus Eros is a Swedish website, which means that everything written is in Swedish (except for this page). Through the years I have gotten so many letters from inquisitive non-Swedish-speaking fans, so I thought that the least I could do was to present a page with an English description of Cirkus Eros, what Cirkus Eros is all about - the purpose, and the history behind it. And I also present a couple of other pages I have, which actually are in English.
Further down on this page, for all you unfortunate souls who do not master the Swedish language, I am linking to a website in English about our love workshops, as well as a picture gallery site - also in English. |
| Already in my teens, in the end of the 1970's, I published my first short stories, for which I actually got paid. Without any real sexual experience, I wrote a couple of sexual fantasy stories that I sent to the Swedish men's magazine Lektyr, very popular at the time. My stories were published, and I got well paid - the nice sum of 800 SEK for one, and 1100 for the other, which was quite a lot of money in those days for a teenage student. |
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I have continued to explore sexuality, most of all artistically, in pictures as well as in writing. In 1982 I did my first nude art photos, something that truly inspired me, and gave me the inspiration to continue, which I did. I never tried to go professional, and become a fulltime photographer, because I was already up to my neck in theatre and illustration art, but photography has always been an important artistic expression for me, as well as a great tool for my work with illustration and painting. Photography has also always been an important channel for free and playful creativity, without expectations and demands. My pictures and my short stories are also the basis for this website, the very reason for creating Cirkus Eros in the first place.
Some of my earliest nude art photos, from 1982 and forward during the 1980's. Since the beginning of the 1980's the Norwegians have hade the privilege of a very serious and artistic erotic magazine - Cupido. For a short period in time they tried to get established in Sweden, something that worked for a while, but after only a couple of years the Swedish magazine flopped. But when it came, it was a good time for me. I was in ecstacy, and ran to their office with a box full of photos, and a newly written short story. The short story got published, as well as a few of my photos. And as long as Cupido existed here in Sweden, practically everything I wrote got published, and most of it was also translated into Danish and Norwegian, and got published in Norway and Denmark as well. And even since the Swedish Cupido ended, the Norwegian magazine continued to buy stories from me, that got published in their Norwegian and Danish magazines. And they also still buy pictures from me once in a while. 
Personally, I like the idea of pornography. I just never really found any kind of porn that I could appreciate - porn that would arouse me as well as inspire me artistically, give me new angles, new insights. So instead of whining about bad porn, I realised that to get the perfect pornography for me, I had to produce it myself. My pictures and my stories are results of this thinking. Nicely enough, my art has obviously inspired others too. To me, my writing and my photography is and has always been primarily an artistic work without any focus on financial profit - but my work has still gotten me quite a lot of assignments through the years, as well as published work that I already made. Being an artist, showman and creative person, imagination, fantasy and creativity has always been very central components in my life. Imagination is a liberating and magic force, the basis for all play, but also as a sign of intelligence and ability to solve problems. Our imagination is the tool to picture things that still don't exist in the physical world. And that is a very important thing. "Imagination is more important than knowledge." – Albert Einstein Erotic fantasies are also very important. Imagination is definitely one of humanity's most important tools for survival, and erotic imagination touches the core of survival - our procreation. Without sexual fantasies, we would probably make less babies. And life would most probably be more boring... Imagination, fantasies, dreams, stories, legends – and all kinds of artistic renderings of all that – has always been a very important part of my life. I have always found ways of expressing myself as a writer, artist, photographer, actor, director, storyteller and/or musician, and I will most certainly continue doing just that until the day I draw my last breath. Subjects such as sexuality, both from a existential perspective as well as connected to relationships and love, are also very important to me, so it is no surprise that I focus a lot of my artistic work on those. I took my first steps into the realm of the Internet back in 1997, and by January 1998 I had already made a row of websites. Not very good to start with, but they worked, and I got visitors. I took a multimedia education, and learnt much more, so much so I could start designing websites professionally. But I also continued to make my own websites, just for fun, about all my different fields of activity. I had truly realized what an amazing tool for communication Internet was, to share and advertise my thoughts and artistic work. I was still occasionally writing for the Norwegian magazine Cupido, but I also realized that anything that gets published in a magazine soon disappears into oblivion. So why not make an erotic website? Cirkus Eros was born in 1999, and I got very positive reactions immediately, which was encouraging, of course. So I am still here. |
| The name Cirkus Eros is supposed to awaken ideas of an arena for eroticism, a Circus of lovemaking. Originally, it comes from one of my short stories, about a group of theater students at a party. They start doing improvised and erotic dance shows for each other, a very hot form of exhibitionistic play. It evolves into a game wherein the participants go further and further, getting hotter and hotter, more and more erotic, and finally they all erupt into a group sex situation. |
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In 2001 I met the greatest love of my life, the lovely Jennie, who became my wife, my mistress, my soul mate, my collegue and my best friend. This has had a great impact on Cirkus Eros, of course. Jennie is not only my favourite model, she is also my muse, my collegue and my best friend. Ever. She is also my Goddess, my tantric priestess and my greatest source of inspiration. Jennie is also a photographer, and has contributed with both articles and photos here on Cirkus Eros. But the biggest changes came when we started leading tantric love workshops together, back in 2004.
Since many years back I am on a mission - to spread a widened consciousness about the good eroticism, the positive role of sexuality in the lives of all of us. This website of mine has developed enormously, from being a place where I show some pictures and short stories of mine, to a huge mass of information around sexuality as a whole, with articles, questions and answers, link pages, as well as an advertising base for our workshops, lectures and coaching sessions, concerning love, relationships and sexuality. This has become a constantly expanding business, which has also been featured in a lot of media – TV, radio, newspapers and magazines. |
| Nine years after the launch of this website, Cirkus Eros, in 2008 I got my collected short stories published as a book, by a a well established Swedish publishing company, Lind & Co, under their erotic lable XStory. My book got the same name as my website - Cirkus Eros och andra erotiska berättelser. There is a very beautiful circle in the fact that this name comes back again, considering it was also the name of one of my original stories, back in the early 1990's. This also places the book in a larger context, the artistic, philosophical, pedagogical and even political aspects of all my work with erotic expression. And of course it is a good brand name, which should never be underestimated. |
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Sexuality is simply very important, something that I feel deeply about, something I think should get more attention in our lives, in a positive and shame-free way, through better sex education, better pornography, through the workshops and lectures we provide, as well as a strong political stand for erotic liberty and sexual rights. Seen from that perspective, this website is an integrated part of something much larger, a collective ambition for sexual enlightenment that is way larger than a website, or a book.
I want Cirkus Eros to be a positive force, an inspiration for the many to liberate themselves from stuffy old ideals that put sex and body consciousness in the closet, as something to be ashamed of. Therefore my ambition is not only to please, to entertain or show beauty. I also want to question, to provoke the mind, turn ideas and conceptions upside down. I want to wake people up, inspire and open up people's minds to new thoughts, new ideas, new experiences, new insights. Even just asking these questions may make some people very upset. But thats my treat. Take it or leave it. I am of course totally satisfied if this website will serve only as a provider of some good moments, inspiring reading, entertainment and sexy pictures. I wish you a good life, filled with joy, pleasure and happiness. Welcome! Your host on Cirkus Eros – Carl Johan Rehbinder
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| Our first workshop in English came already in 2006, at a new age festival. Since then we have presented a few more workshops in English, in Sweden and in Germany, and we would like to do it much more. If you want to find out more about our workshops and what we do, please visit our English website Eros Education. And if you think we would be perfect for your tantric festival (or similar events), don't hesitate to contact us. |
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| Cirkus Eros Image Gallery is my web gallery for erotic imagery – most of all photography, but also some drawings, illustrations as well as paintings that I have made through the last decades. So if you want to indulge in exquisite and artistic erotica, don't hesitate to visit my Cirkus Eros Image Gallery. |
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Cirkus Eros - erotik för finsmakare - en plats för dig som vill ha erotisk inspiration som är sofistikerad, vacker, poetisk, innerlig och sinnlig. 
Cirkus Eros har funnits på Internet sedan sommaren 1999. För samtliga texter och bilder på denna hemsida - med undantag av enstaka antika bilder - gäller upphovsrättslagen. Kopiering och spridning av material utan upphovsmans tillstånd är strängt förbjudet enligt lag. Cirkus Eros webmaster kontaktar du på info@cirkuseros.nu |