Sublime

Pan

If the consort was not allowed to have sexual relations with anyone after he had been with the high priestess, castration may have been the solution that at first allowed him to remain alive.

Many were looted simply because they were rich.

All the ancient spiritual sexuality traditions considered female ejaculate to be a sacred medicine. Practitioners of ayurveda (the traditional medicine of India) and tantra called it amrita, meaning “the nectar of life.”

any tantric practitioner, whether male or female, who carries the Vajrayāna commitments especially of the practice of the feminine yidam is also considered an embodied ḍākinī, foiling the notion that only women can be considered human ḍākinīs. Finally, subsuming all

Devi breaks the brahminical image of the woman as dutiful wife. She will not marry and cannot be controlled by male demons or gods. She is warlike and aggressive, not submissive and unassertive. She appears to be an ideal woman, being beautiful and amorous, but she drinks wine and is independent.

allow women’s sexiness to help you discover and give your gift, rather than beguile you into cycles of stimulation and depletion.

Readers acquainted with the recent literature on human sexuality will be familiar with what we call the standard narrative of human sexual evolution (hereafter shortened to “the standard narrative”). It goes something like this: 1. Boy meets girl. 2. Boy and girl assess one another’s mate value from perspectives based upon their differing reproduct