The Tao of Love and Sex
by Jolan Chang
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Author: Jolan ChangEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1991-08-16
ISBN: 0140193383
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Reviews of The Tao of Love and Sex
Book Review: The Tao of Love & Sex by Jolan Chang, or more positions, please!
Summary: 5 Stars
There are 136 pages with 14 black-and-white photos of drawings and small illustrations starting every chapter (12) in this thin book, but not outer features are important in this edition, only content leading to deeper understanding what kind of energy our sexual life can represent in everyday life. A pocket atomic power station comes to mind the first:)
One line of this book can influence you strongly, but everybody has its own line. For example, it can be about stopping intercourse in the beginning of phase of arousal and don't waiting for more intensive feeling almost before ejaculation -- this advice really works out making `hour of love' double longer than it could be before. The advice for advanced, I think.
On positions. If you can make love both long and often, the question about many different love positions will be as important as it could be. The author, Jolang Chang, suggests 20-30 traditional Chinese titles and variants (compare with 30-35 of Kama Sutra), and these titles of positions look much more closer to nature than western pro-technical terms Locomotive, Crossbow, Slingshot, Hinge, or Tugboat (in Lovelives by Samuel Dunkell, or in any modern sex guides such terms can be found with ease). Unfortunately, I cannot name the book where all possible or most interesting and different positions (in principle!) approximately 70-80 can be organised in cycle like a musical composition and allow followers unlimited improvisations (my keywords for that are `rhythm and freedom').
When I have met this book first time many years ago, I thought that we both -- author and me -- were on the same wave, now I definitely know twice as more and this strong egoist's feeling makes the taste of love and sex one hundred times richer, like young and old wine which you can choose following ancient rhythms inside self, no matter what country of origin is it: China, India, or Japan. And I mean originality of heart and nature, not wine or whiskey:)
Summary of The Tao of Love and Sex
Two thousand years ago, at a time when the Christian West was frantically repressing sexuality, the Chinese were enjoying an erotic life that fused the sensual and the spiritual, in which sexual guilt and sexual aberrations like sadism and masochism were all but absent. This bestselling book by a leading modern exponent of Taoism makes that erotic life available to all who seek it. With its emphasis on male restraint and female pleasure and its healing vision of sex as an expression of a deeper cosmic balance, The Tao of Love and Sex offers us nothing less than a new model of loving, at once exciting and serene, passionate and compassionate.
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