Salon.com > Tantra http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 My tantric “awakening” turned me off sex http://www.salon.com/2013/03/17/my_tantric_awakening_turned_me_off_sex/ http://www.salon.com/2013/03/17/my_tantric_awakening_turned_me_off_sex/#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2013 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13219561 For nearly two decades, my social, sexual and philosophical life revolved around the subculture known as S/M, BDSM or leather. I spent every weekend and many weeknights at dungeon parties and S/M discussion groups. I traveled around the country monthly, teaching workshops like “How to Take More Pain ... and Get More Pleasure From It” and “Warm Cheeks, Warm Heart.” I wrote and published books about it. I relied on its unique jolt of arousal, endorphins and adrenaline to get me through bad moods, PMS, creative blocks and anything else that was bringing me down. It was a heady era that fed my ego and libido abundantly and my pocketbook at least adequately.

It ended. Not with a whimper -- the gradual tailing-off that many S/M folks experience as age and relationships take the edge off their desire -- but with a bang.

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