A revolutionary approach to female sexuality that focuses on relaxation as the key to achieving deep orgasmic states
• Explores how receptive feminine energy influences the male-female exchange
• Reevaluates the role of the clitoris, breasts, and vagina in achieving orgasm
• Provides ancient tantric meditations for increased sensitivity and awareness
Fulfilling sex nourishes love, rejuvenates the body, and boosts mental health. Unfortunately, prevailing attitudes in the West work against the natural capacity of women to realize their sexual potential and experience deep orgasmic states. Tantric Orgasm for Women offers women a fresh look at the ecstatic bliss possible within their bodies, using knowledge and approaches from the sensually cultivated traditions of the East.
Exploring Tantra from the female perspective, Diana Richardson reveals the critical role receptive feminine energy plays in allowing orgasmic states to arise. Her 20 years of tantric research and personal experience provide readers with an understanding of how the various parts of the female body may be activated to deepen ecstatic states. Readers will learn how to re-circulate orgasmic energy; why breast stimulation takes priority over vaginal attention; the difference between soft penetration and deep sustained penetration, including how to avoid premature male ejaculation; and how women can strengthen the erection response of male partners. Tantric Orgasm for Women shows how women can exert a powerful influence on their sexual experiences when they understand the inner workings of their bodies and when they avoid adopting conventional ideas about what should be satisfying to them.
A lot of comments are against it and I think it's because people missed the entire FACT that it is educational around sex, intimacy, and the female body from the view of an ancient practice of tantra... so yes, it will conflict with the modern conventional way of understanding, which has ultimately disconnected people from their bodies.
The author also says several times in the first few chapters that there is no wrong way to have sex and be with your partner the main thing that will serve you is to be in awareness and consciousness, which even without emoloying ANY trantric practices will enhance your experience . Again this book just edifys from a tantric view.
Which from my understanding taps into the natural energies that flow within us weather we want to accept that or not and learn how to ebb and flow with those energies individually and while relating with our partners on a deep intimate level.
A beautiful book for both men and women to explore a different side of their sexual experince that if approached with an open mind and heart may open you up in ways that you didn't even know possible.
There is a male version called "Tanrtic Sex for Men" and I have yet to read it (and will to have a full encompassing understanding, which I also encourage if you enjoyed this book to read the other or vice versa) but I bet it has lots of valuable information much the same 😊
To end, one of the biggest takeaways I got from this book was to step away from trying to have an orgasm and instead be so present that you can enjoy the sensations and experiences that are showing up, and from that place orgams will naturally occur. And if you don't then at least you got to enjoy the experience for what it was instead of trying to reach a particular goal.
Make the goal enjoyment with yourself or partner, take out trying to perform and "get somwhere".
Life changing 🙌🏽
Edit: Have read this book more than once and still does not disappoint.
A misogynistic, straw-man-filled, deceptive load of garbage. I couldn't even finish it. The only kind of woman one can be is passive and receptive. Any other mode of being is denying ones essence. The author makes blanket assertions about what people do and feel with no proof (and many times contrary to fact). Additionally, the only valid sexual expression (at least in the part I read) is heterosexual. Further, the author loves to garb himself in misunderstood science to support his pseudo-scientific ravings about energy flows. He loves to paint whatever he is presenting as out of the ordinary and special to his followers and teachings. For example, in a section on a seeing meditation, he says that rather than treating seeing as something coming out of your eyes as most people do, you should imagine them being receptive. What a load of putrescent offal! Any modern who has given it the least thought realizes that eyes see because they are receiving light not because they are shooting out some sort of "sight beams." The last credible person to put forward the "rays from the eyes" theory was Plato, who was refuted by Aristotle.
I wanted to finish this book because I could see clearly the origin of many strange beliefs that I have hitherto found incomprehensible (energy in the spine and the like). But it was so much like slogging through a toxic mire that I kept delaying picking the book back up and only read it sporadically until I had to return it to the library.
The author has some valid points, but that doesn’t mean the book isn’t inherently mysoginistic and homophobic. If your spirituality/theory isn’t inclusive, it doesn’t mean shit. According to the author women need to tone themselves down a lot in order for the man to no ejaculate too soon. The woman needs to not forget to give her man sexual attention when she just had a baby or else his eyes will roam. The woman is expected to be still, delicate, serene and tranquil. Women shouldn’t alter their breasts for any reason, and if you don’t breastfeed your child long enough your child will end up traumatized. The author believes people in same sex relationships date the same sex because they simply don’t have the perseverance to learn how to deal with the opposite sex, the only working union for tantra. This book is almost 20 years old, and you can tell. Let’s home tantra has come a long way since then and the author learned some more past years.
TLDR: the book has some interesting points and information but most of the book is mysoginistic, sexist, homophobic banter...
While the author makes SOME interesting points, this book absolutely reeks of misogyny and homophobia. Women are supposed to be passive and receptive - just lay there and do nothing! "Conventional" sex is terrible, even if you enjoy it. It's still the wrong way to have sex!
Ladies, after you give birth, don't forget about giving your husband plenty of attention - you know, after you give your baby all of your attention - or else he's going to cheat on you. What's that, you're saying? Your baby ripped your vagina in two? Oh well.
And if you're in a same-sex relationship, sorry, no good sex for you!
Another gem: Parents should hide ALL evidence of arguments from their children. Just to set them up with unrealistic standards of what a real relationship looks like that so that they're completely ill-equipped.
is there anything to say? this book encourages us to all slow slow slow slow down. perhaps we can only experience the best things in life if we do it slowly. :)
I appreciate the there is a subsection of literature on the subject of sex that isn’t for the purpose of erotic entertainment but more so for education. I thought this book was really informational and would be beneficial to anyone interested in expanding their minds on the topic of sexuality and their own personal relationship with it.
Overall my favorite part & biggest take away is the encouragement to be open minded and explore with or without a partner.
Interesting title, huh? However, I am suspicious, as this woman's guru called "Tantric Master Osho" was formerly the somewhat notorious Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh......However, what's not to like about a book which contains statements like : "Nature gives us sex so that we may have the opportunity to transcend the limits of our physical boundaries, to float as filaments of vibrating light and love" ? (When were you last a floating filament?) Richardson is all about the practicalities and electromagnetic potential of the human body from the woman's point of view, and Osho is all about the theory. It is repetitive, and there were parts I skipped (I have no interest in natural family planning, for example), but it is a book I will keep and maybe re-read some parts again in the future.
Tantric Orgasm for Women explains why breast stimulation is more significant to orgasm than attention paid to the clitoris, and how deep sustained penetration activates the erotic feminine joy.
The author (Diana Richardson) draws on tantric research and personal experience to show women how to create orgasmic bliss with a male partner, and how men can overcome problems of premature ejaculation and erectile dysfunction to help women embrace their true feminine power.
The book is a useful and recommended read with clear instructions on how to revolutionise your approach to sexual intimacy. It provides an insightful look into holistic sensuality from the perspective of a well-travelled woman.
Well, still working on this one. It's a To-Do book. Some things have definitely worked. This is part of my Perv book section: a potpourri of books that offer quite different ways to look at relationships and sex - and sometimes spirituality.
Tantric Orgasm for Women by Diana Richardson is about being more aware and conscious sexually though the meditative practices as well as philosophies toward being more aware and conscious sexually transcending physical planes are set with heavy emphases on being present—being in the here and now (not emotionally in the past, feeling forward). After reading The Heart of Tantric Sex by Diana Richardson, I decide to buy then read Tantric Orgasm for Women thinking the text is to assist one with helping a/ woman/women reach an orgasmic state through tantric methods (the text does so though offers more). There are similarities between The Heart of Tantric Sex and Tantric Orgasm for Women though each text is unique unto itself when delving into exploring specific areas of topics through a tantric lense (though the latter book, Tantric Orgasm for Women, seems to be for an audience of women [even saying so within the text], I find the text to be quite valuable for all with an interest in being orgasmic through a tantric lifestyle). The text is enlightening and empowering individuals toward a healthier-sensible-sexual-stable-thriving life:
"When we (man and woman) learn to understand one another's psychology and physiology, we can embrace our biology and our spirituality as one. With a multidimensional quality to it, sex has a far deeper significance than the production of children. It is also fun; it is play; it is prayer; it is meditation; it is a merging into oneness, into love; it is true spirituality...
Women have become sexually repressed due to man's nonunderstanding of the difference between the sexes. But it is not man's fault, personally; he too is a by-product of the social, sexual misunderstanding in force today.
The tragedy of this repression of woman and her sexual power is that whenever man's and woman's real nature is not allowed to go according to its inner needs it turns sour, becomes poisoned, crippled, or paralyzed; it can even become perverted. If woman is corrupted by man, man himself cannot remain natural either. After all, the woman gives birth to the man. If woman, as mother, does not express her sexuality naturally, her children will not learn a natural expression either. Woman certainly needs a great liberation but not through imitation of man, not through being equal to man by being exactly like him. Instead, woman's true liberation will come through being an authentic and opposite force to man...
Woman can begin to cut away from the myth that she is basically emotional, unstable, and given to bouts of moodiness...The heart—at the center of our true being—knows only one language and that is the language of love. When searching and longing for love, it is very easy to lose oneself in the other, thereby unconsciously and accidentally giving up the power and grace of our feminine birthright. By opening consciously to man, inviting him in, while at the same time remaining true to our own feminine awareness, we transform sex between man and woman into love—a sublimely spiritual experience" (Richardson, pp. 204–206).
I find Tantric Orgasm for Women to be a very personal text especially with the qualitative offerings from actual tantric correspondences as well as sessions in accordance with the tutelage of Diana Richardson. Stylistically (design organization, fonts) both books are very different. I'm glad about reading the text especially since the text is about and for women from a woman's perspective: I learn a lot from reading the text which I feel holds practical methods for one to readily impliment as soon as one learns the practical methods from the text. Additionally, I find aspects of The MindBody Code: How to Change the Beliefs That Limit Your Health, Longevity, and Success by Dr. Mario Martinez, It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn, and Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Dr. Christiane Northrup in relation to psychoneuroimmunology concerning being healthily-mindfully present with one's self as well as another practically are throughout the text.
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Richardson, D. (2004). Tantric Orgasm for Women. Destiny Books.
I'd heard about tantric sex and was curious. My husband knew about orgasm without ejaculation, and we both know a little about 'energy flow' in the body so I was interested in this book.
The concept was initially fascinating because it was a completely foreign look at a different way to approach sexuality and making love. However, I dropped the book because it felt like it was becoming increasingly repetitive and boring, and I couldn't wrap myself around the entire concept that women should be passive and receptive - only.
I did see some valid points and slowing down our sexual experience along with more foreplay makes sense but the bulk of it seems like a heck of a lot of work to just be passive.
I was struggling to get through reading the many different meditations, none of which I was able to implement as I was reading so it would take a lot of time to 'go back' through the book to find them ... they may have been better off in an appendix where they could be easily located.
Additionally, without my husband also reading the book how would I possibly explain the half of the things we're supposed to 'do' or not do.
Finally, does anyone in reality who holds a job actually have time in today's busy world to implement this amount of meditation and spend literally hours meditating or love making and all in a passive sense? I certainly don't.
Rather than feeling excited about what I read, it began to fill me with dread of what I'm supposed to do or not do and how I'm supposed to remember all of that and be able to relax.
It sounded like a heck of a lot of 'work' to focus your energy internally here and then there and then somewhere else during love making rather than just feeling the pleasure of being with my husband. How can anyone focus and relax if you're supposed to be doing all these things vs what comes naturally in coming together?
A few tips may have been helpful, but I just couldn't get through it. I became increasingly bored and finally set it aside when I reached chapter 10.
I was meant to find this book when I did. There’s so much that we do not know about sex, here in the West. I’m beyond grateful this book has already begun to change my life, there are things to learn in here about men as well, and she has a version for men, tantric sex. Tantra is similar to the Tao, Buddhism, Zen. This is a focus on sex and the female body and emotions. There is inclusive information about same sex experiences as well. I share with everyone I know and have begun taking my own notes in a journal. It includes individual and partner exercises as well Sex is meditation
Let me just say this book was given to me as a birthday present from a friend. The thing I didn't understand was that this friend knows that I am a lesbian and thought this book would be a good read for me to understand sexual energy etc. That being said I have never read the word "penis" so many times in one book in my entire life. I am not sure what my friend was thinking when she got me this book but honestly it is so incredibly straight and with only one chapter on same sex attraction I found it incredibly disappointing.
He encontrado bastantes fragmentos que ya había leído en otro libro de la autora. Aún así, en algunos casos, es de utilidad para tener más presentes los conocimientos que te ofrece. Hay momentos que me han mantenido más centrado en la lectura y otros en los que me ha costado avanzar. Un libro para quedarse con lo útil y para aprovechar las herramientas que contiene y no solo destinado a ser leído por mujeres.
This book has literally changed my life and my views on sex. I always felt like there was something more/lacking with conventional sex but had no insight and couldn’t find anyone who did.. My partner and I have experienced love making like no other while and after reading. I think this book needs to be shared with everyone. Especially those on the spiritual journey to self discovery.
Knjiga koju prvenstveno žene treba da pročitaju, kako bi spoznale svoju moć i da se sve na svetu vrti oko njih i da su one te koje imaju moć da promene sve iz korena, pa tako i samog muškarca (jer u poslednje vreme, čujemo samo loše komentare upućene prema njima, a zapravo su žene te koje podižu, neguju i vole ta ista muška bića) - jer jedino ako je svesna sebe, izvan ovih konvencionih okvira može napraviti da Zemlja bude "satvično" mesto.
Interessant sur l'approche tantrique. Quelques exemples concrets sur les techniques (soft vision - position - Meditation - exercices solos et à deux...)
A retenir : - Relaxation est nécessaire - Etre dans le "here and now" - Ne pas chercher la performance ou l'orgasme - Ne pas surstimuler le clitoris - Polarity positive and negative : Poitrine et Vagin - "Soft penetration" est possible
Reading this book felt like a challenge because it upends the usual ways I think about having sex. It challenged me to think about connecting and being on a different and even deeper level with my partner that feels actionable.
Beautiful, informative book. I wish I’d read it earlier in life as I’ve been enlightened to many realities of female and male bodies, emotions and its relationship to sexuality, fertility cycles etc. My fiancé and I read parts together & I look forward to reading the male counterpart of this book.
Maybe it's me but I can't seem to push through the writing style. I've attempted it twice over the last few years but it just doesn't flow. Absolutely yes for slow mindful sex. Big nope to slow painful reading.
Celkom fajn, boli tam veci zaujímavé, aj veci, ktoré som brala s rezervou a len preskakovala očami. Odporúčam ľuďom, ktorých zaujíma aj iný, alternatívny pohľad na vec.
It’s probably 10 years ago when I first read this book’s introduction. Interestingly I didn’t remember that the author cited Osho there. There are many enjoyable spiritual talks and meditations. Osho’s words always come in as a summary and call on a deeper spiritual practice. Deep love (honesty, trust, spiritual growth together, and maybe as said in Ringing Cedars, a mutual wish for creation) leads to orgasm. I believe chapter 3, the depiction of a Valley Orgasm is exactly what happens between Anastácia and Vladimir! He remembers a beautiful satisfaction and closeness but doesn’t remember any physical movement or action. Now it all makes sense haha.
Culturally and politically, the book points out, the suppression of the Devine femininity has caused all the twisted ideas about what men and women should be. It must be unlearned.
Ps: I very much dislike the implication in “sex and parenthood” that a woman has to be the mother and be the mother-wife to take care of her man’s sexual needs into account. Shouldn’t a mature man be the dad and the husband, and his own person? A mature man doesn’t need to be manipulated.
Very good for both women and men. It's very peaceful and relaxing to read and great to have on hand for later reference. An important book, especially in our male-dominated fast-paced society.
This is not only an essential book for women, but also for men and maybe becoming men. If I ever bare a son he will get this book for his 16th Birthday.