Learn about how tantric sex can improve your love life... it's more than just kinky.
If a guy says he can go for hours, he's probably fibbing. Unless he's a Tantra.
Eastern culture has been hitting North America in recent decades: from anime, to sushi and now even sex. Not that Hentai stuff. Tantric sex which, when mastered, can last for upwards of 8 hours per session.
Tantra is part of a series of ancient Hindu spiritual texts written more than two thousand years ago, the most famous being The Kama Sutra. It's made a big hit with celebrities: most notably Sting, who has been an advocate of Tantric sex for many years, and to this day maintains that "normal" sex doesn't even hold his interest anymore.
What makes Tantric sex different from conventional Western sex is that physical intimacy is a part of spirituality, not divorced from it. The Kama Sutra and other Tantric texts cover a breadth of subjects, ranging from how to hold back an orgasm, arousing a partner without touching as well as how to spot a deadbeat partner.
Despite its kinky rep, tantric sex is about learning to channel orgasmic energies so as to raise your level of consiousness & transform the act of sex into a sacrament of love.
The actual practice of Tantra involves numerous esoteric rituals and formulas designed to help practitioners, called Tantras, to understand the true nature of reality. Despite its kinky rep, Tantric sex is about learning to channel orgasmic energies so as to raise your level of consciousness and transform the act of sex into a sacrament of love. To do this, Tantras learn a variety of techniques including specialized breathing techniques, visualization and the erotic stare.
Andrea Marion Pinkney, author of The Kama Sutra Illustrated, insists that students of Tantra gain many powerful abilities and transcendent insight by deviating from sexual boundaries associated with orthodox traditions. Tantric sex was considered an unorthodox religious practice even when it was created more than two millennia ago. This made it available to women and low-ranking men, since only high caste men were allowed to practical all of the orthodox religious rituals.
Practice Makes Perfect
Since Tantric sex takes so many forms and can takes years to learn, chances are you won't have much luck with a one-night-stand or a gut full of beer. However, if you're sober, have some time and a good, giving and game partner, Tantric sex can offer many benefits to an otherwise conventional love life.
First, there is great respect for one's one body. Tantras revere both male and female parts. That's evident in Tantric names for human anatomy: in the Kama Sutra, the term for vagina is "yoni", commonly translated as "sacred place". The penis or "lingam" technically means wand of light. Tantras were also well aware of the G-spot long before its so-called discovery in the 1950s by Western sexologist Dr. Gräfenberg (for whom the spot is named).
For Tantras, sex is not an act for pleasure alone, but something spiritual. This is in stark contrast to general attitudes toward intercourse in the West, where sex is usually all about achieving orgasm. If you get it, the sex was good. If you don't, what's the point?
Come Again?
But by holding back their orgasms, Tantras are not only able to have sex for hours, but it also turns sex into more than self-gratification (the "I come, I'm done" attitude). In the process of being with someone for such a long time, Tantras cannot help but become more aware of how their partners moves and how they can respond, thus increasing intimacy between couples.
Learning to hold in your orgasm is one of the most difficult parts of Tantric sex. An orgasm consists of a series of involuntary muscular contractions, usually between 8 to 25. This is true for both women and men. So not only are Tantras resisting their own biological urges, they could hurt themselves if they try to hard. Beginners often fail and climax after a certain point.
Eventually though, with patience and practice Tantras learn to bring each other right to the edge of an orgasm, then draw back, and ride the 'wave of bliss' together. If all goes well, both the man and woman should achieve multiple orgasms without coming and, if they're lucky, bring about the legendary "amrita" also known as female ejaculation.
Even with the many physical pleasures brought about by Tantric lovemaking, here is no ultimate goal, no limit of climaxes, only the celebration of the present moment and harmonious union.
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