Dr. William Kolbe - The Rejuvenating Power of Masturbation

What a marvelous system we have within us to maintain our bodies and minds healthy and strong. Simply said, sexual activity allows us to stay younger longer. Sexual stimulation excites the testes and ovaries to produce sex hormones that keep the reproductive system intact while maintaining the integrity of the skeletal and muscular systems. Sexual activity also stimulates certain sense centers of the cerebral cortex and the pituitary, thyroid, and adrenal glands. The hormones produced by these glands, especially the sex hormones, are part of a cocktail of enzymes, sugars, trace elements, amino acids, and vitamins in purified forms that are essential for our health.

The Rejuvenating Power of Masturbation offers a transformational approach to self-stimulation that enables us to cultivate the hormones necessary for maintaining the body and mind in harmony. Masturbation can be considered one of the healthiest forms of exercise available promoting emotional well-being, physical vigor, muscle tone, and stamina. This practice extends sex drive and bolsters the auto-immune system well into the later phases of life. The more the genitals are stimulated, the more sex hormones are produced and the longer the sex organs will function normally.

The purpose of this book is to educate the reader about the physical and mental well-being that result from masturbation. The practitioner can achieve a renewed or expanded sense of self-love that enhances how life unfolds to the senses, creating a timeless journey of ecstasy out of every moment. In essence, masturbation becomes a path of liberation leading to a deeper, more conscious experience of life.

Over 30 years of research and practice have been integrated into this understanding of how people can cultivate lasting mental and physical health from their sexual experiences when they understand the inner workings of their bodies and avoid adopting conventional ideas about what should be satisfying to them.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I wish to thank the following contributors who enabled me to establish links between the Taoist-Hindu esoteric understandings of human sexuality and modern medical knowledge.

Nik Douglas and Penny Slinger, authors of Sexual Secrets: The Alchemy of Ecstasy, document a comprehensive study of ancient and modern perspectives on human sexuality that formed the backbone for this book. Their work made the arcane sexual teachings of Taoism and Hinduism understandable and practical.

Samael Aun Weor and El Movimiento Gnstico for its prolific literature and its school of initiation into the mysteries of sexual transmutation and astral explorations. The Gnsticos provided the world with a workable alchemy within our own bodies that defied the predominant limiting procreational and recreational functions associated with sexual activity.

George Katchmer, author of The Tao of Bioenergetics , provides an in-depth look at Taoist concepts of human energy cultivation linked to martial arts. His book elucidated some specific genital self massage techniques leading to the accumulation, refinement, and storage of Qi energy.

Dr. Stephen T. Chang, author of The Tao of Sexology: The Book of Infinite Wisdom , provides sexual techniques that improve and unify the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of the individual practitioner. His book contains a map of the reflexology points of the sex glands that correspond to six major body organs.

The World Wide Web for providing the means to access abundant sources of encyclopedic, historical, medical, and scientific information that enabled this matrix of divergent philosophies and practices to emerge into a cohesive, eternal affirmation of the potential that lies within us all, and as a call to rethink the prevalent narrow Western views of sexuality.

Migdalia Bachman, whose sincere, profound interest in this research set into motion the first publication of this work and the ensuing course of events that continue to gestate in a womb of possibilities and exploration.

Brie who so aptly guided me to explore and advocate for how women fit in this sexual paradigm that historically has been the domain of male-oriented literature and research. Brie's insightful inquiries and comments were a 'sounding board' that directed me to research how similar women are to men anatomically and hormonally. This understanding radically opened up Taoist and Tantric perspectives to more completely address female sexuality and substantiate the many benefits of cultivating Life Essence for women.

Table of Contents

Part One

An Introduction to Masturbation

Understanding the Endocrine System

Introduction

Masturbation across Cultures and History

Contemporary Perspectives on Sex Hormones

The Power of Hormones: Research on Transsexualism

Male and Female Semen

How Frequent Ejaculation affects the Gonads and Brain

Sex Therapy for Menopause

Harnessing Sexual Energy for Health

Part Two

Taoist and Tantric Masturbation Practices

Channeling Sexual Energy through the Major Energy Meridians

A Preface to the Practices

Eastern Teachings on Masturbation

Taoist Alchemy

The Hindu Subtle Body

The Erotic Mood

Peak and Valley Orgasms

Male Genital Massage

Female Genital Massage

Beginning the Exercise

Channeling Sexual Energy

Visualizing Sexual Energy

Raising the Spirit to the Head

Nurturing Your Subtle Body

Part Three

Finding the Tao in El Salvador

Finding the Tao in El Salvador

Reflections

PART ONE

An Introduction to Masturbation

Understanding the Endocrine System

A temple relief at Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh , India

Introduction

We humans, along with a number of other species(porcupines, chimpanzees, and rats to name a few), masturbate as a means of sexual gratification, auto-eroticism, or self-love. Anatomically speaking, having genitals within the reach of nimble fingers does facilitate this act of self-stimulation. Whether it be in the shower, the car, on a couch or bed, or even in a moment of solitude in the great outdoors, masturbation is readily on hand to relax, stimulate, or to satisfy a fantasy. Little wonder the vast majority of men and women masturbate.

This pleasurable, invigorating, and fun exercise offers numerous health benefits including menstrual cramp relief, stress reduction, endorphin release, stronger pelvic muscles, reduction of prostate gland infection for men and resistance to yeast infections for women. Masturbation is also an excellent cardiovascular workout that stimulates the immune system to help build up resistance to common infections.

Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders in 1994 suggested discussion of masturbation in school classes on sexuality claiming that masturbating helps young people (and even adults) find realistic control over their sexual appetites, empowering them to make better choices about whom they have sex with, when, and why. Even before, the music industry promoted the cause to 'whip it good' when "Whip It" earned Devo a gold record in 1980. More recently, Britney Spears' ode to onanism, "Touch of My Hand", elevated masturbation to a sacred form of self-indulgence.

Masturbatory pioneer Betty Dodson is devoted to liberating masturbation, erotic sex education, and promoting sexual diversity. She not only advocates masturbation, but has conducted workshops for more than 30 years in which groups of about 10 or more women would talk, explore their own bodies, and masturbate together.