Tantra 101

The best reading, writhing, and tantra tricks

Tantra tradition recommends sharing a good belly laugh with your lover before sex as a way to nurture intimacy. Conveniently enough, a tantric how-to video or book might just do the trick; many of them are hysterically funny.

Pick the wrong video, and you're in for 60 minutes of a man and a woman with farmer tans screwing to sitar music on an Oriental rug. "I love to dance with my yoni," gushes the aqua-eyeshadowed hostess of one effort.

Despite some inevitable weirdness, both gay and straight couples can glean helpful information from these resources, especially instruction on breathing, prolonged erection, female ejaculation, erotic positions, and spiritual-sex history. Most combine tantric techniques with other Eastern rituals.

Here's a selection to get your kundalini flowing:

Videos

Playboy's Making Love Series: Tantric Lovemaking (Playboy Entertainment Group)

Ancient Secrets of Sexual Ecstasy (Higher Love Video Series, Tantra.com)

Fire on the Mountain: Male Genital Massage (Joseph Kramer Productions)

How to Female Ejaculate (Blush Entertainment)

Magic of Ejaculation (House o' Chicks)

Books

The Multi-Orgasmic Man, by Mantak Chia and Douglas Abrams Arava (HarperCollins)

The G Spot, by Beverly Whipple, Alice Ladas, and John Perry (Dell Books)

Divine Sex, by Caroline Aldred (HarperCollins)

The Art of Sexual Ecstasy, by Margo Anand (Jeremy P. Tarcher)

The Pictorial Guide to Tantric Sex Positions, by Kay Parker (California Exotic Novelties Inc.)

Spiritual Sex, by Nik Douglas (Pocket Books)

Web sites

House o' Chicks Videos: www.houseochicks.com

Tantra.com: www.tantra.com

Powerotics (instructions for female ejaculation): www.bdsm.com/powerotics/ttrade5.htm

Devil's Advocate Books

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