From The Maze Where Realities Converge
Here are some books -
- The Kama Sutra by Vatsyayana. This is the most famous sex manual in the world, but I have no idea why. It's full of bad advice on courtship and boring, pedantic lists of body parts. The section on oral sex is quite good.
- The Multi-Orgasmic Man by Mantak Chia. Techniques for men and women to spread sexual sensation around the body and prolong orgasms. And they really work.
- How To Make Love All Night And Drive A Woman Wild by Barbara Keesling. Ignore the ridiculous title and the annoying, fluffy writing style; the actual techniques are twenty-four carat gold. The books teaches men techniques to prolong orgasm, achieve multiple orgasms, and have harder, better-quality erexions. It basically turns you into a superhero.
- The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight by the Sheikh Nefzaoui, translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton. A 15th century Arabian sex manual.
- The Ananga Ranga, translated by Sir Richard Burton. An 16th century Indian sex manual. Much better than the Kama Sutra.
Chapter 9 mentions the 'Kabbazah' or 'Pompoir' technique, by which a woman can get a guy off by rippling contractions of the vaginal muscles, without moving any other part of her body:
Moreover, at all times of enjoying Purushayita [the girl-on-top position] the wife will remember that without an especial exertion of will on her part, the husband's pleasure will not be perfect. To this end she must ever strive to close and constrict the Yoni [vagina] until it holds the Linga [penis], as with a finger, opening and shutting at her pleasure, and finally, acting as the hand of the Gopala-girl, who milks the cow. This can be learned only by long practice, and especially by throwing the will into the part to be affected, even as men endeavour to sharpen their hearing, and their sense of touch. While so doing, she will mentally repeat "Kamadeva! Kamadeva," [the name of the goddess of lust] in order that a blessing may rest upon the undertaking. And she will be pleased to hear that the art once learned, is never lost. Her husband will then value her above all women, nor would he exchange her for the most beautiful Rani [queen] in the three worlds. So lovely and pleasant to man is she who constricts. - The Karezza Method by Alice Bunker Stockham. A simple and effective technique for delaying orgasm indefinitely.
- Ovid's Ars Amatoria
- Hua Ha Ching. Lao Tzu discourses on the universe and fucking.
- Liber A'ASh vel Capriconi Pneumatici (that probably means 'the book of the inflatable goat'), On Sexual Freedom, Bagh-i-Muattar, Eroto-comatose Lucidity and Energized Enthusiasm by Aleister Crowley.
The Bagh-i-muattar is a Sufi poem with some sexual (mostly homosexual) content. The footnotes give a wonderful list of 16 different types of fellatio.
Energized Enthusiasm explores an interesting topic: the link betwixt sexual mojo and the creative imagination. Throughout history, it seems that the people with the greatest creative output have been those with the most turbulent sex lives. Consider the myth of the muse: a new awakening in the sex life leads to a new creative output.
Now, if that convinced you that sex is related to creativity, you're very gullible. Mythology and hearsay is terrible evidence. But try drawing sexual sensation up from the genitals towards the brain (The Multi-Orgasmic Man, above, gives some methods). You may find that success in this practise results in an temporary state of highly increased creativity.
Sex, Creativity and Tarot
The Art card from Aleister Crowley's Tarot deck. This card corresponds to the path of Samekh in Qabalah. Samekh passes from Yesod to Tifaret, that is, from the genitals to the heart. I reckon that this card hints at what I've said above; draw sexual sensation up the spine from the genitals and you increase artistic output. The fluids from the wand and the cup commingle at the cauldron; this is surely symbolic of fucking. The lightning bolts formed by this act (which I think represent the physical sensation of sexual stimulation) then pass upward and become rainbows - this could be symbolic of the sublimation from sexual energy to artistic energy as it is drawn higher up the spine.
Crowley has written here, "Sex is, directly or indirectly, the most powerful weapon in the armoury of the Magician; and precisely because there is no moral guide, it is indescribably dangerous. I have given a great many hints, especially in Magick, and The Book of Thoth [which describes the Tarot cards] — some of the cards [such as the Art card, maybe?] are almost blatantly revealing; so I have been rapped rather severely over the knuckles for giving children matches for playthings. My excuse has been that they have already got the matches, that my explanations have been directed to add conscious precautions to the existing automatic safeguards."
Crowley's writings repeatedly refer to a secret technique, "the secret of secrets", given to initiates of the 9th degree of the Ordo Templi Orientis, which he says will confer upon its users the power to transform the world. Now, according to Wikipedia, the 9th degree involves instruxion in heterosexual sexmagickal techniques. I'd theorize that the "secret of secrets" is a particular technique for transmuting sexual sensation into vigour and creativity.
