RECOMMENDED READING ON SEXUAL TOPICS
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'SEXUAL ENERGY AND YOGA', ELIZABETH HAICH (ASI PUBLISHERS, 1975).
ONE OF THE MOST DIRECT STATEMENTS ABOUT THE SPIRITUAL NATURE OF SEXUAL
ENERGY AVAILABLE, IT EXPLAINS THE MECHANICS OF HOW ONE'S LEVEL OF
CONSCIOUSNESS DICTATES THE USE OF THIS ENERGY.  ALTHOUGH HAIC ARGUES FOR
ABSTINENCE AS PART OF ONE'S SADHANA, SHE CLAIMS AN ASPIRANT ON ANY PATH
MUST DEVELOP INCREASINGLY STRONG AND RESISTANT NERVES TO TOLERATE
ACCELERATING FREQUENCIES OF SEXUAL VITAL ENERGY GENERATED BY A SPIRITUAL
PRACTICE.

'ESOTERIC PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE AND MARRIAGE', DION FORTUNE (SAMUEL WEISER,
INC., 1974).  ANOTHER VERY LUCID TREATMENT OF ESOTERIC COSMOLOGY, WHICH
FOCUSES PARTICULARLY ON THE NATURE OF SEXUAL ENERGY, EXACTLY HOW IT
FUNCTIONS, AND THE METAPHYSICS OF ENERGY LEVEL THAT MAKES RELATIONSHIPS
SUCCEED OR FAIL.  VERH HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

'TANTRA:  THE YOGA OF SEX', OMAR GARRISON (CROWN BOOKS, 1983).
GARRISON IS A REPORTER RATHER THAN A TANTRA EXPERT; NEVERTHELESS HE
PROVIDES AN UNUSLALLY CLEAR EXPLANATION OF TANTRIC THEORY AND OFFERS
STEP-BY-STEP TANTRA TECHNIQUE DEVELOPED ESPECIALLY FOR WESTERNERS BY A
BENGALI GURU.

'THE TAO OF LOVE AND SEX', JOLAN CHANG (E. P. DUTTON, 1977).
A DELIGHTFUL HOW-TO BOOK ON TAOIST ORGASM-CONSERVING METHODS FOR MEN.  IT
ARGUES THAT CONSERVATION OF SEMEN IS VITAL TO A MAN'S HEALTH, AND THAT
ORGASM IDEALLY SHOULD OCCUR ONLY ONCE IN SO MANY OCCASIONS OF LOVEMAKING.
THIS PRACTICE IS SAID TO ENHANCE, RATHER THAN DECREASE, A MAN'S ENJOYMENT,
FOR IT INCREASES HIS TOLERANCE TO SEXUAL PLEASURE AND RECIRCULATES THE
"VITAL FORCES" WITHIN HIS BODY.  AND TAOIST SEX IS SUPPOSEDLY WONDERFUL
FOR WOMEN, WHO, ACCORDING TO THE ANCIENT CHINESE, ARE "INEXHAUSTIBLE."
'THE TAO OF LOVE AND SEX' OFFERS VERY SPECIFIC TECHNIQUES FOR PROLONGING
INTERCOURSE, AND MANY EROTIC, BUT TASTEFUL, ILLUSTRATIONS.

'SEXUAL SECRETS', NIK DOUGLAS AND PENNY SLINGER (DESTINY BOOKS, 1979).
AT FIRST GLANCE, ONE NOTICES THE PICTURES:  LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF
EROTIC DRAWINGS OF WHAT MUST BE EVERY HINDU DEITY, TANTRIC RITUAL, AND
SEXUAL POSITION KNOWN TO MEN AND WOMEN.  A MASSIVE TOME, AND EXPENSIVE EVEN
IN PAPERBACK, 'SEXUAL SECRETS' COVERS INDIAN, TIBETAN, CHINESE, AND ARABIC
PRACTICES, AND IS PACKED WITH FASCINATING EASTERN SEXUAL LORE.  IT SEEMS
INTENDED MORE FOR FUN THAN FOR SCOLARSHIP, HOWEVER.  ALTHOUGH DOUGLAS LIVED
IN THE ORIENT FOR EIGHT YEARS AND TRANSLATED EXCERPTS OF SCANSKRIT AND
TIBETAN TEXTS, THE BOOK CONTAINS NO REFERENCES TO ORIGINAL SOURCES FOR EITHER
ARTWORK OR SCRIPTURE, AND HAS BEEN CALLED, BY ONE SCHOLAR AT LEAST, A
"TRAVESTY."  A CHINESE ACADEMICIAN HAS POINTED OUT, HOWEVER, THAT THE
TAOIST TRANSLATIONS ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.  SLINGER'S DRAWINGS ARE
SENSITIVE AND CHARMING, AND THE BOOK, ON THE WHOLE, IS VERY ENTERTAINING.

'SEX', COMPILED AND EDITED BY MA AMRIT CHINMAY. (tHIS "LITTLE BLACK BOOK" OF RAJNEESH'S SAYINGS ON SEX IS AVAILABLE FROM LEAR ENTERPRISES, PO BOX 649, 
WOODLAND HILLS, CA 91365.)