Dr. Beverley Whipple Speaks in Pune, India
4:26 PM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
“G marks the spot, her hidden treasure”
“She is mobbed by women who want to know more about their sexuality wherever she goes…from women above 35 hailing from countries like Indonesia, India and Pakistan!
Meet Dr Beverly Whipple, the lady who solved the G-puzzle…
Co-author of the international best-seller, The G-Spot and Other Recent Discoveries about Human Sexuality, Whipple documented orgasmic responses in women that eventually led to the definition of not only the G-spot, but also the true meaning of sexual health.
‘‘I want to help people feel good about their sexual experiences. It may not be about achieving an orgasm or female ejaculation - that is goal oriented sex — but pleasure can be derived from a caress of the hand and warm cuddle.’’
Whipple’s book has been translated into 19 languages and will be re-published as a Classic in January 2005. She has spent a lifetime researching, writing and speaking about sexual health…”
Dr. Whipple wrote this for the cover of our book Soul Sex: Tantra for Two published by New Page Books, March 2003.
"A book that focuses on the process and pleasure of sexual interactions, not on the goal of orgasm, with which I wholeheartedly agree. Although most of my research concerning sexuality has focused on neurophysiology, I am very impressed by the exercises and the depth presented in 'Soul Sex: Tantra for Two.' A very readable and useful sexuality guide."
Al Link
4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra
New wine named Tantra!
7:28 PM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
"If you thought wine drinking was all about knowing your red wine from the white one and about uncorking a bottle without a social gaffe, here is something to bust the elitist notions about the beverage.
To popularise the drink in a non-wine drinking country like India, Champagne Indage Ltd..." is introducing a new wine called "Tantra Baramati"...
Another indication of how trendy Tantra is becomming.
all good things,
Al Link
4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra
Online Tantra Book
7:35 AM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
“‘Indecent Practices’ is simultaneously a description of human sexuality and of mysticism in which vivid examples of each are used to illuminate the other. Religious traditions from Christian revivalism to Islam, Taoism, and Zen -- but with particular attention to Hinduism and Buddhism -- are employed to explore six areas of human sexuality.”
Al Link
4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra
Passage to China, by Amartya Sen - New York Review of Books
5:47 PM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
Volume 51, Number 19 • December 2, 2004
Passage to China, by Amartya Sen
“The intellectual links between China and India, stretching over two thousand years, have had far-reaching effects on the history of both countries…
Yi Jing's translation of Buddhist works included texts by practitioners of Tantrism, whose esoteric traditions placed a strong emphasis on meditation. Tantrism became a major force in China in the seventh and eighth centuries, and since many Tantric scholars had a strong interest in mathematics (perhaps connected, at least initially, with the Tantric fascination with numbers), Tantric mathematicians influenced Chinese mathematics as well.
Joseph Needham notes that "the most important Tantrist" was Yi Xing (672 to 717), "the greatest Chinese astronomer and mathematician of his time."[3] Yi Xing, who was fluent in Sanskrit and was familiar with the Indian literature on mathematics, was also a Buddhist monk, but it would be a mistake to assume that his mathematical work was somehow specifically religious. As a mathematician who happened to be also a Tantrist, Yi Xing dealt with a variety of analytical and computational problems, many of which had no particular connection with Tantrism at all. He tackled such classic problems as "calculating the total number of possible situations in chess." He was particularly concerned with calendrical calculations, and even constructed, on the emperor's orders, a new calendar for China.”
Al Link
4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra
Sex Research and Sex Repression
1:29 PM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
Here are some excerpts form Carey's article:
"In a scene from the movie 'Kinsey,' opening in theaters on Friday, government agents seize a box of study materials being shipped by Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, the pioneering sex researcher, and impound the contents as obscene.
The scene portrays a time in American history, the 1940's and 1950's, when marital relations were rarely discussed and frank reporting about sex was greeted with a collective anxiety verging on horror. In 1948, when Dr. Kinsey published 'Sexual Behavior in the Human Male,' he was called a pervert, a menace and even a Communist.
Much has changed in the years since then. But scientists say one thing has remained constant: Americans' ambivalence about the scientific study of sexuality.
Decades after the sexual revolution, sex researchers in the United States still operate in a kind of scientific underground, fearing suppression or public censure. In a culture awash in sex talk and advice in magazines and movies and on daytime TV, the researchers present their findings in coded language, knowing that at any time they, like Dr. Kinsey, could be held up as a public threat.
Social scientists say that for all its diverse tastes and freedoms, the nation that invented Viagra and 'Sex and the City' is still queasy about exploring sexual desire and arousal, even when this knowledge is central to protecting the public's health.
In July 2003, for instance, Congress threatened to shut down several highly regarded sex studies, including one of emotion and arousal, and another of massage parlor workers. And last summer health officials refused to finance a widely anticipated proposal backed by three large universities to support and train students interested in studying sexuality.
As a result of this continued hostility, researchers say they still know precious little about fundamental questions, including how sexual desire affects judgment, how young people develop a sexual identity, why so many people take sexual risks, how personality and mood affect sexual health and how the explosion of sexual material on the Internet and trysts arranged online affect behavior.
'I have been in this field for 30 years, and the level of fear and intimidation is higher now than I can ever remember,' said Dr. Gilbert Herdt, a researcher at San Francisco State University who runs the National Sexuality Resource Center, a clearinghouse for sexual information. 'With the recent election, there's concern that there will be even more intrusion of ideology into science.'
Much of the suspicion is rooted in religious belief. Many devout believers see any effort to catalog sexual behavior as akin to publishing a field guide to carnal sin, an invitation to deviancy.
'We know the formula for sexual health, which is sex within a monogamous lifelong relationship,' said the Rev. Peter Sprigg, director of marriage and family studies for the Family Research Council, a conservative lobbying group based in Washington. 'Studying permutations of it, we think, is an effort, like Kinsey's, to change the sexual mores of the society so that what most people consider deviant behaviors look more normal.'
Although religious conservatives have always objected on principle to sex research, several things have changed since Dr. Kinsey's time, said Dr. John Gagnon, an emeritus professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the author of 'An Interpretation of Desire.'
'Back then, white small-town Protestants' morality was American morality, and it spoke with one voice,' he said. 'Now they no longer solely define the conversation; there are competing secular voices talking about sexual health, about pleasure, feminism, the gay movement and so on.'
In response, Dr. Gagnon said, the critics of sex research have become more organized and politically connected. Mr. Sprigg agreed that conservative groups like Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council have coordinated their critiques of sex research to bring more public scrutiny to the projects. Late last year, the Traditional Values Coalition, an organization of 43,000 churches, publicly objected to some $100 million worth of government-backed research, much of it on sexual behavior, and compiled a roster of more than 150 researchers who had done sex studies. That roster has circulated widely among both critics and scientists, who call it a 'hit list.'"
Al Link
4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra
New film “Unscrewed” reviewed by John Anderson
1:08 PM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
“It's easy to think of this film (formerly Dogs in the Basement) as a documentary, when it's actually a faux-documentary in the vein of Best of Show or A Mighty Wind. It's played close to the cuff and with more poignancy and fewer laughs than director Leslie Shering probably intended. Thus the film comes across more as an intimate look at the troubles of couples in counseling, a program you might see on PBS.
The film opens with Joe and Mary St. John talking to the interviewer about the spice that's gone out of their sex life after so many years of marriage. But the young, likable, all-American couple -- the very definition of normal and average -- are determined to do whatever they need to put some sizzle back in the bedroom. So they pursue three different therapies: with a sex therapist, a urologist, and a threesome of tantric counselors. Things start out somewhat mundanely, but as the therapies go on, they become more and more bizarre. Some are curiously funny (as when the male sex therapist role-plays with Joe), and others are wincingly so (like most of the scenes with the tantric three).
The success of Christopher Guest's comedic mockumentaries, like the two previously mentioned and This Is Spinal Tap, is partly due to quirky characters doing and saying funny things. In Unscrewed, Joe and Mary are just too good at playing a typical couple caught up in strange encounters, which causes more empathy than laughter. And while the rest of the cast is funny in a wry way, they're just not outrageous enough in that Spinal Tap manner to push any scenes over the top. It's a subtlety that might appeal to some -- and to someone like Shering, who has spent her entire career thus far as a documentary filmmaker.”
Al Link
4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra
New computer game: “Tantric” or "Frantic"?
2:35 PM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
THE MIDLANDS, ENGLAND - June 7th, 2004 - Astraware today announces the launch of Tantric for Palm OS® and Pocket PC. Tantric has players frantically arranging different shapes in a top down fashion to avoid leaving gaps for the impeding power sapping bar. Those people with a natural flair for efficient suitcase packing or arranging large furniture in a small room will take to Tantric like a fish to water. The gameplay has been likened by one journalist to filling a car trunk while someone is slowing trying to shut it.
"This game is all about focus and reaching a higher state of awareness - hence the new name!” Tantric is available for Palm OS® and Pocket PC based devices.
all good things,
Al Link
4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra
New radio show: Tantra Today
2:31 PM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
Beginning Thursday November 4 people…will have access to a valuable new resource to help them re-discover their inner passion and power to help them restore their personal relationships. Tantra coach and yoga instructor, Carla Tara, will host a new radio show titled Tantra Today, dedicated to helping individuals and couples to enhance their personal relationships and to strengthen connections to their spouses and loved ones. Tantra Today will be broadcast every Thursday from 10am – 11am PST on the VoiceAmerica Health and Wellness channel , a Surfnet Media Group, Inc. Network (OTCBB:SFNM.ob).
To access the show, listeners need to log onto http://www.health.voiceamerica.com/ Listeners with questions or opinions are encouraged to call in live, toll-free at 866-369-3742. Emails can also be sent to e-mail protected from spam bots. More information about the program, future guests and each host can be found at http://www.1tantra.com/ or http://www.health.voiceamerica.com/
all good things,
Al Link
4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra
