Mark A. Michaels - Great Sex Made Simple: Tantric Tips to Deepen Intimacy & Heighten Pleasure

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Great Sex Made Simple: Tantric Tips to Deepen Intimacy & Heighten Pleasure 2012 by Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson.

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Contents

, by Barbara Carrellas

: The Fundamentals: Key Concepts and Attitudes

: Honor Each Other

: Know the Power That Dwells in Your Pelvic Floor

: Collaborate and Take Each Other to New Heights

: Take Your Time

: Build Excitement and Prolong Arousal

: Be Present

: Shed Your Inhibitions

: Learn to Feel Energy: Its Easier Than You Think

: Self-Pleasuring

: Experiment with Your Breath

: Pleasure Yourself in Front of Your Partner

: Use a Vibrator: Its More Than Just a Sex Toy

: Fantasize Freely

: Change Your Position to Change Your Experience

: Beyond Words: Silent Ways to Create
Intimacy and Reverence

: Gaze into Each Others Eyes

: Keep in Touch

: Breathe Together

: Connect: Hands to Heart

: Bow to Each Other

: Pay Attention

: Kissing

: Kiss for Ten Minutes

: Give and Receive Kisses

: Exchange Breath

: Play with Cupids Bow

: Exchange Essences

: Awakening the Senses

: Smell: The Most Primal Sense

: Taste: Where Our Sensory Experience of the World Begins

: Sight: The Power of the Erotic Gaze

: Touch: Open Up to New Sensations

: Hearing: Alter Your Consciousness with Sound

: The Full Spectrum: Engage All the Senses in Lovemaking

: Erotic Trigger Points

: Nape of the Neck

: Armpits

: Inside of the Elbow

: Achilles Tendon

: Coccyx

: Nipples

: Above the Pubic Bone

: Perineum

: Prostate Gland

: G-spot

: Enhancing Oral Sex

: Use the Aural to Enhance the Oral

: Oral G-spot

: Become a Human Vibrator

: Pleasure Your Partner Inside and Out

: Imagine Your Way to a New Dimension

: Sex Positions: A Tantric Twist

: Pull Yourselves Together: Yab Yum

: Play with Polarities: Kali Asana

: An Old Standard Made New: Missionary with Enhancements

: Doggy Style and Some New Tricks

: Expanding Orgasmic Response

: Simply Give and Receive

: Ride the Wave .

: Anal Sex for Energy Activation

: Break Your Patterns to Discover New Sensations

: Breathing as an Alchemical Process

List of Illustrations

1. A hand-cranked vibrator for home use, circa 1900...

2. Eye-gazing is an energetic exchange that involves looking
deeply into your partners eyes. It brings you into alignment
by harmonizing your emotional states...

3. Seated posture that facilitates harmonizing the breath...

4. Heart salutation...

5. Bowing is a very effective way to nurture an attitude of reverence...

6. Exchanging breath during intercourse creates an energetic circuit...

7. The seven chakras: the two uppermost, the third eye and crown,
do not relate to the physical senses...

8. The Pinocchio Effect...

9. Aristotles Illusion...

10. Chanting Om in unison with ears together can create
harmony and connection...

11. Early-twentieth-century French postcard depicting frottage...

12. Massage along the lower leg, between the bone and the Achilles tendon,
to find the trigger point...

13. Stimulate both the nipple and the areola...

14. Press in and down to find the erotic trigger point near the
pubic bone...

15. The prostate feels like a walnut-sized gland. It can be digitally
stimulated through the anus...

16. Th e G-spot is located within the upper front wall of the vagina between
tw o-thirds and a full finger-length inside...

17. Inserting moistened pinkies into your partners ears during oral sex creates
two energetic circuits and is a delightful way to guide the pace of stimulation...

18. Basic visualization of an energetic circuit during oral sex...

19. Advanced visualization of an energetic circuit during oral sex...

20. Yab Yum...

21. It is easy for Shiva to stroke Shaktis genitals in Kali Asana...

22. When Shiva sucks Shaktis toe and Shakti sucks Shivas thumb,
an energetic circuit is created...

23. Pulling Shaktis hair from behind can build arousal...

24. Movement of energy in a basic sexual kriya...

25. Circulation of energy in an accelerated sexual kriya...

Foreword

While reading this delightful and important book by Mark Michaels and Patricia Johnson, I was overcome by a bittersweet nostalgia. I remembered how thrilling, blissful, and transformative my first Tantric experiences were. I also remembered the challenges of finding teachers with whom I truly resonated. Oh, how I wish Mark and Patricia had been teaching Tantra twenty-five years ago.

I was inspired to study and practice Tantra at the peak of the AIDS crisis, which was having a devastating impact on my friends and colleagues in the New York theatrical community. I did not approach the study of Tantra with the intention of becoming a better lover, or to enhance my relationship with a belovedeven though those things were blissful by-products of my Tantric journey. I began to study Tantra because I was looking for a way for members of my community to be able to have ecstatic sex again, this time more safely. Tantra quickly proved to be an approach that could easily embrace ecstasy, safer sex, and intense love.