The Karezza Method or Magnetation: The Art of Connubial Love

by John William Lloyd

Karezza is controlled non-seminal intercourse. The word Karezza (pronounced Ka-ret-za) is from the Italian and means a caress. Alice B. Stockham, M.D., was the first one who applied it as the distinctive name of the art and method of sexual relations without orgasmal conclusion. But the art and method itself was discovered in 1844 by John Humphrey Noyes, the founder of the Oneida Community, by experiences and experiments in his own marital life. He called it Male Continence. Afterwards George N. Miller, a member of the Community, gave it the name of Zugassent’s Discovery in a work of fiction, The Strike of a Sex. There are objections to both these names. Zugassent was not a real person, therefore did not discover it. It was Noyes' Discovery, in fact. Continence, as Dr. Stockham points out, has come to mean abstinence from all intercourse. The Oneida Communists do not appear to have opposed the female orgasm, therefore it was well enough for them to name it Male Continence, but Dr. Stockham and I agree that in the highest form and best expression of the art neither man nor, woman has or desires to have the orgasm, therefore it is no more male than female continence. And a single-word name is always more convenient than a compound. For which reasons I have accepted Dr. Stockham’s musical term, which is besides, beautifully suggestive and descriptive. Another writer on this art (I first heard of it through him; he deriving it from Noyes) was Albert Chavannes, who in a little book on it, called it Magnetation, a name which I coined for him. It is perhaps not a bad name; but I now think Karezza better.

Genres: Sexuality, Self Help, Nonfiction, Relationships, Occult

93 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 7, 2008

About the author

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John William Lloyd (1857-1940) was an American individualist anarchist, mystic and pantheist.

Reviews

[Emelye purser · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well executed account of intimate relations. My favourite read for a long time.

Well, not everyone will achieve the karezza experience. Many women will teach it. I hope successfully. Well done well written and makes total sense.

[Krisalyn Seear · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hidden jem

For anyone bored with sex, unsatisfied by fucking and craving a more sustainable, heart centered way of love making. This book is enlightening and poetic.

[Tine!]

Perfect; now we wait for this to be updated with scientific cases studies and mundane formalities. For me, I think I will be my own scientist and trust my personal laboratory equipment.

[Barefoot Ted · Rating 5 out of 5]

You will have a completely different concept of sex after reading this book.