Tantra Between the Sheets: The Easy and Fun Guide to Mind-Blowing Sex by Val Simpson

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Tantra may be a 5,000-year-old spiritual tradition, but it's also an astonishingly powerful tool for contemporary sexual empowerment. Tantra Between the Sheets teaches Tantric techniques that enable men and women to gain sexual confidence, become multiorgasmic, and satisfy their partner in the most intimate, soulful ways. Similar to yoga or meditation, Tantra is about accessing the energy stored within the body and being alive to all the senses. Whether readers are interested in deepening their current relationship, discovering more about sexuality, or simply picking up some great sex tips, Tantra Between the Sheets shows how surprisingly easy it is for anyone to benefit from this ancient practice. This book is beautifully designed with a hip, stylish look that includes 40 black-and-white photographs.

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Tantra refers to Eastern approaches for extending sexual unity and bonding between couples, prolonging sexual experiences, and enhancing connection with "the Sacred." Typically, tantra books contain many exercises for moving sexual energy throughout the body, delaying/enhancing orgasm (often misleadingly stating that semen loss depletes men), and working with the chakras (body energy centers)-plus sometimes ecstatic claims about changing your life. A Canadian couple, Copeland and Link have practiced Tantra since 1987 and run Tantra workshops since 1997. Their book concentrates on heterosexual relationships and making sexuality a focus in one's partnership. Helpful drawings and charming photos of "real-body" people, plus an excellent annotated bibliography, substantially support the text. Not a key purchase but definitely worth considering. British journalist Sampson attended a Tantra workshop on assignment, hoping to write a light piece about its supposedly sex-obsessed followers. Yet she came out a believer and did research and interviewed other workshop alumni for this book. Easy to read, with more modest claims and a more Western perspective than Soul Sex, it notes use by homosexual couples and devotes a whole chapter to singles. However, Sampson provides no references for intriguing statements like "studies have shown that men who help around the house have sex with their partners more often than those who don't" and a scantier bibliography. Sadly, the lovely photos of perfect-body individuals (no couples) do nothing to explain the intricacies of energy centers, exercises, and techniques. Not recommended; better basics for a Tantric sex collection in public and academic libraries include Margo Anand's encyclopedic The Art of Sexual Ecstasy, Mantak Chia and Douglas Abrams Arava's The Multi-Orgasmic Man, Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks's small but unique Breathing Ecstasy, and William Schindler's Gay Tantra.-Martha Cornog, Philadelphia Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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