The Essential Tantra: A Modern Guide to Sacred Sexuality

This large soft cover volume (The essential Tantra: A modern guide to sacred sexuality by Kenneth Ray Stubbs, Ph.D.) is a fully beautifully illustrated book with more than 200 drawings explaining and showing numerous massage techniques and love making positions. This huge 355 page, 8 by 11 size volume is actually 3 books by this author. It covers a wide range of interesting and informative material on the philosophy and practices of Tantra sexuality.This book is organized into three areas and include the following: Tantric massage: introduction, what you need, meditative massage guidelines, reminders, health, preparations, the massage, the meditation, back side conclusion, appendix, and eroticizing safer sex. Part 2: Sensual ceremony: introduction, touching the heart, kissing the joy as it flies, the secret garden ceremony, Tantric explorations and epilogue. Part 3: Sacred orgasms: introduction, sex and orgasm, the spirit of the flesh, out of the ordinary orgasms, four paths, tantric, Taoism, massage as meditation, orgasm as transformation, signposts, the anatomy of being, the four types of orgasms, the two functions of orgasms, the integration meditations and conclusion. There are also the sacred sexual positions in the afterword section.If you are seeking a comprehensive book on the Tantra guide to sacred sexuality this book is for you.Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Martial Art and Warrior Haiku and Senryu).

Very helpful

Very clear and helpful.A lot of the text is laid out in a poetic format, which I found a little bit distracting at first. However, I found that the line breaks actually created a rhythm that matched the sense of movement in the illustrations.The drawings are very good. One advantage of drawings over photographs is that the artist can make things clearer in many ways than the photographer, just by leaving out the unessential details. A second advantage is that explicit photographs are just too pornographic for many people. A pencil sketch is a bit more abstract and artistic, and therefore less shocking, making it easier for those people to assimilate the information without the negative emotional reaction.One reviewer downgraded the book for not being about Tantra as a religion. There are a lot of people on the Internet who like trashing books that don't fit their religious beliefs. That's stupid. Read the subtitle. This is a book about sexuality. Besides, there are "tantric" traditions in almost every branch, school, and sect of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and none of them agree with each other. It's silly to say this "isn't about Tantra," as if there were only ONE religious version of Tantra. There isn't. There are dozens, and this isn't about any of them.I actually found the end of the book a bit too "spiritual" for my taste, but since the whole thing is three books for the price of just the first one, I regard that as a minor flaw. It's still a good book and a great bargain.You can find a good alternative with some excellent DVDs at , but be prepared for something much more explicit.If you want to learn more about Tantric sexuality from a non-religious perspective, there's a very good blog called "Extraordinary Passion: The Art and Science of Modern Tantra" at moderntantra.blogspot.com.

exciting

I was very excited to give this as a present to a close couple of mine who find sexuality and sensual teachings interesting. BUT I purposefully purchased the book “new” and it came used and scratched up in the front. I’m not happy with the quality and the amount I paid- it does not match up. Not worth purchasing new- might as well get the used versions moving forward- because when I’ve purchased those they come with less scratches.Very disappointed. I can’t return because I have to give them the gift tonight for gift exchange. Hopefully they don’t mind the cover looking so used looking.