Guest of "Sans Rendez-vous", Alexis Himeros returns to his erotic podcast which he called "The sound of desire".

An invitation to desire and pleasure through his voice alone.

For her part, the sexologist and psychoanalyst Catherine Blanc explains how the absence of images pushes the imagination of listeners, and generates excitement. 

INTERVIEW

>> A simple voice as a source of desire.

With his erotic podcast "The sound of desire", Alexis Himeros wants to (re) discover an unabashed desire by voice, a thousand miles from what pornography offers.

A project he carried out after realizing in his personal life that the "telephone was a great way to create a very precious carnal intimacy".

Guest of "Sans Rendez-vous", he explains the ins and outs of his weekly podcast, while the sexologist and psychoanalyst Catherine Blanc discusses the advantages of eroticization by voice, which leaves more room for imagination. 

A journey into a dreamlike and sensual world

Rejected by what the porn sites that abound on the net offer, with practices "degrading and degrading" for women, Alexis Himeros wanted to offer an alternative far from vulgarity.

With his podcast, which aims to be a journey into "a dreamlike and sensual world", he brings his listeners to discover "new things".

"Maybe reclaim their sexuality, their body or imagine discovering other bodies." 

To do this, the principle behind "The Sound of Desire" is simple: "your lover, whose voice you only know, leaves you an erotic audio message."

A podcast primarily intended for women, but which also meets with some success among men, since "20% of subscribers are men", indicates Alexis Himeros.

"Super pride."

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The absence of images, a liberation for the imagination

Far from the usual trash conveyed by pornography, the erotic messages delivered in "The sound of desire" invite on the contrary to "slow sex", bounces the sexologist and psychoanalyst Catherine Blanc.

"We give ourselves the freedom to take a place in erotic construction."

A freedom driven by the imagination, since the medium for this eroticization is audio.

And this is also one of the strengths of the concept, recalls Catherine Blanc. 

"It is precisely because there is no image" that the voice can lead to excitement.

"The image is blocking, because it offers a limited imagination vis-à-vis what is proposed."

Where a pornographic video will subject the scene to our imagination, the voice "will allow reverie".

A well-known mechanism, since it also operates between a film and a novel.

"It's the freedom to be able to build something and to put our own situations, our emotions, faces into it. Hence the importance of a voice which, of course, tells classic things, but allows us to see bodies. that can be stroked. "

A concept that Alexis Himeros pushes to the end, since he appeared masked during the interview.

A mask that covers the upper part of his face, not for fear of being recognized, but so as not to impose his face on the imagination of his listeners.