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Better Than Orgasm: The Magic of Energy Karezza Sex
The Greatest Sex Discovery - How to Make Husbands & Wives Wild About Each S. Bass has been a yogi, minister, natural doctor, and fasting & detox specialist for 50+ years. After learning Karezza and its stricter version Tantra a half-century ago, he discovered to his surprise that women loved this kind of sex. But to reach the highest states of pleasure it is necessary to know about food and energy. Dr. Bass experiences and research is completely unique and invaluable, and can no doubt save almost any marriage and relationship. Learn all the secrets in this book, which is a condensed version of Energy-Karezza.Dr. Bass women are frustrated and bored with Standard Sex, but endlessly enjoy Karezza sex. Energy-Karezza is life-changing. Your life will never be the same again. No need to hesitate. You can go back to Standard Sex at any time.A lot of American men, perhaps all men, have trouble with women. I hardly ever met a man in my life who could make women happy in bed, who really understood sex. Men wonder what is wrong and may get a fear complex that they conceal.Men who have felt inferior all their lives, upom practicing self-mastery in sex and pleasing women beyond their wildest dreams, quickly become totally self-confident. I have seen many social failures blossom into great successes, after learning Energy-Karezza.50 years ago I started teaching about the important connection between vitality, nutrition and optimal sex. Without energy-understanding it is impossible to reach the highest states of sexual pleasure and prolongation with relative ease.For a short session of Standard Sex you don't need much energy. But for enhanced sexual pleasure, energy becomes very important.
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130 pages, Paperback
First published December 31, 2009
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March 25, 2014
I got this book because I wanted to find out a bit more about Karezza. Unfortunately, Stanley S. Bass's understanding of Karezza is that it equates to basically male continence (i.e., no ejaculations for the man). That's fine, that is one aspect of Karezza - but not the complete whole. However, the book lets you down because Stanley's writings are extremely repetitive.
To think that this book is actually a condensed version of his book "Energy-Karezza", it beggars belief as to what he would be communicating in 300 pages if he managed to repeat himself on every single page of the 80 pages of this book.
The other catch is, that the kind of person who would purchase this book, is probably already at least introduced to Karezza/Male continence/some aspects of Tantra/Taoism that have "no ejaculations" as their main tenets. So, for someone who is already convinced, this book is just pages of Stanley trying to convince you to do something that you already are interested in, something that you already understand.
The messages of this book could be simplified to this: Male peak orgasm results in alienation from your significant other. Males should forgo ejaculations completely, to save their essence, their life-elixir. This results in males being able to make love to their significant other in endless waves, until the significant other is happy and contented. The significant other can later choose to forgo her peak orgasms, if she can, but in Stanley's opinion, many women are so frustrated, disappointed and angry that they first have to go through years of constant peak orgasms / valley orgasms with their lover (who is practicing male continence) until they "might eventually be" ready to forgo orgasms themselves and thus directing lovemaking towards a blissful meditation between two lovers.
All this being said, there are some interesting aspects to Stanley's writings - i.e. the concept that you shouldn't be making love if you've got a full stomach - Stanley preferred to eat directly afterwards his Energy-Karezza sessions. But even in this, he enters territories, which probably make sense to him, but some readers might disagree with -- to completely get rid of anything spicy out of your diet (it's well-known that Cayenne pepper, Chili and Ginger are, or function as, aphrodisiacs..), cut out all coffee, tobacco, drugs, etc.
So, back to the preaching-to-the-choir bit, the kind of a man who would benefit from this book, is the kind of man that Stanley E. Bass encountered and helped face-to-face, by telling them about Karezza, the practice of would sometimes even cure the ailing male's premature ejaculation -issues, etc.
But, seriously, if you've done your research into Taoist / Karezza / Tantric practices regarding male continence, this book will leave you wondering why it wasn't a 5 page brochure. In fact, Stanley's interview at the end of the book was more informative than the book itself.
There are some interesting tidbits in this book, f.ex., at the end, it suddenly moves to Testimonials (only one of which was sent to Stanley E. Bass, the rest are gotten out of Alice B. Stockham's books. These testimonials, sent to Alice B. Stockham, are interesting - the results that ailing marriages and desperate wives and husbands have gotten by practicing the Karezza that Alice B. Stockham described are eyeopening.
I think the only saving grace that Stanley E. Bass had in this book was that right at the end of the interview (and at the end of the book), he confessed that the books he had read on Karezza were "full of flowery language", and very short on techniques and full-on descriptions. So he purposefully went the other way, showing diagrams of where to press to halt loss of semen during ejaculation, and the usual PC-muscle flexing techniques. The tick-tock clock penetration and specific movements of the penis were, well, technical. Not much to do with Karezza. In my mind, "2.5 inch penetrations while moving in and out once per second, when you get too excited, start moving in a half-circle inside her" has nothing whatsoever to do with Karezza - this might be good advice for "prolonged sex" or something, but Karezza is deeper than this. Anyway, there's hardly any flowery language to be found in Stanley's writing. This can lead you to think that this is simply a Karezza-infused sex-technique-book, and you wouldn't be too far away from the truth.
I feel like Stanley has lost the heart of Karezza by trying to reduce it into simple techniques for the man "to drive his wife wild!". There's something missing from this book, and that is subtlety, and the actual essence of Karezza. Please don't let this be the only book you ever read on Karezza.
Also, Stanley accidentally spreads the regular misunderstandings on Wilhelm Reich. Let me quote:
"Wilhelm Reich spent a whole lifetime talking about the perfect orgasm, but he went about it the wrong way, in my mind. ... He should instead have been looking for release from subconscious repressions, without losing energy. The perfect orgasm Reich was looking for was the valley orgasm. He didn't know that. ... There is no perfect peak orgasm. That was the illusion."
Stanley E. Bass is grossly mistaken if he believes that Wilhelm Reich WASN'T searching for a way to get the regular, ejaculating, sex-having man and regular woman to experience full-body release, resulting in the dismantling of subconscious repressions. While it is debatable whether Wilhelm Reich ever practiced non-ejaculatory sex for the purpose of retaining his life-essence, (there don't seem to be any mentions of this being the case), to claim that Reich misunderstood things and was just looking for "peak orgasm" (=ejaculation) is ridiculous! Reich specifically wrote about many men being sexually repressed and inhibited, even though these men claimed that yes, they were able to ejaculate. But they never experienced the full-body orgasm that Reich was speaking of, with involuntary movements and softening of the emotional armour.
Please don't make the mistake of buying this book and giving it to your SO, either. Stanley's way of communicating will appear too mechanistic ("what about love?").
Bottom line: Sometimes it is important to communicate a concept or an idea, even if you are not a writer per se. Sometimes, however, it would help, if you would actually have some writing chops.
To think that this book is actually a condensed version of his book "Energy-Karezza", it beggars belief as to what he would be communicating in 300 pages if he managed to repeat himself on every single page of the 80 pages of this book.
The other catch is, that the kind of person who would purchase this book, is probably already at least introduced to Karezza/Male continence/some aspects of Tantra/Taoism that have "no ejaculations" as their main tenets. So, for someone who is already convinced, this book is just pages of Stanley trying to convince you to do something that you already are interested in, something that you already understand.
The messages of this book could be simplified to this: Male peak orgasm results in alienation from your significant other. Males should forgo ejaculations completely, to save their essence, their life-elixir. This results in males being able to make love to their significant other in endless waves, until the significant other is happy and contented. The significant other can later choose to forgo her peak orgasms, if she can, but in Stanley's opinion, many women are so frustrated, disappointed and angry that they first have to go through years of constant peak orgasms / valley orgasms with their lover (who is practicing male continence) until they "might eventually be" ready to forgo orgasms themselves and thus directing lovemaking towards a blissful meditation between two lovers.
All this being said, there are some interesting aspects to Stanley's writings - i.e. the concept that you shouldn't be making love if you've got a full stomach - Stanley preferred to eat directly afterwards his Energy-Karezza sessions. But even in this, he enters territories, which probably make sense to him, but some readers might disagree with -- to completely get rid of anything spicy out of your diet (it's well-known that Cayenne pepper, Chili and Ginger are, or function as, aphrodisiacs..), cut out all coffee, tobacco, drugs, etc.
So, back to the preaching-to-the-choir bit, the kind of a man who would benefit from this book, is the kind of man that Stanley E. Bass encountered and helped face-to-face, by telling them about Karezza, the practice of would sometimes even cure the ailing male's premature ejaculation -issues, etc.
But, seriously, if you've done your research into Taoist / Karezza / Tantric practices regarding male continence, this book will leave you wondering why it wasn't a 5 page brochure. In fact, Stanley's interview at the end of the book was more informative than the book itself.
There are some interesting tidbits in this book, f.ex., at the end, it suddenly moves to Testimonials (only one of which was sent to Stanley E. Bass, the rest are gotten out of Alice B. Stockham's books. These testimonials, sent to Alice B. Stockham, are interesting - the results that ailing marriages and desperate wives and husbands have gotten by practicing the Karezza that Alice B. Stockham described are eyeopening.
I think the only saving grace that Stanley E. Bass had in this book was that right at the end of the interview (and at the end of the book), he confessed that the books he had read on Karezza were "full of flowery language", and very short on techniques and full-on descriptions. So he purposefully went the other way, showing diagrams of where to press to halt loss of semen during ejaculation, and the usual PC-muscle flexing techniques. The tick-tock clock penetration and specific movements of the penis were, well, technical. Not much to do with Karezza. In my mind, "2.5 inch penetrations while moving in and out once per second, when you get too excited, start moving in a half-circle inside her" has nothing whatsoever to do with Karezza - this might be good advice for "prolonged sex" or something, but Karezza is deeper than this. Anyway, there's hardly any flowery language to be found in Stanley's writing. This can lead you to think that this is simply a Karezza-infused sex-technique-book, and you wouldn't be too far away from the truth.
I feel like Stanley has lost the heart of Karezza by trying to reduce it into simple techniques for the man "to drive his wife wild!". There's something missing from this book, and that is subtlety, and the actual essence of Karezza. Please don't let this be the only book you ever read on Karezza.
Also, Stanley accidentally spreads the regular misunderstandings on Wilhelm Reich. Let me quote:
"Wilhelm Reich spent a whole lifetime talking about the perfect orgasm, but he went about it the wrong way, in my mind. ... He should instead have been looking for release from subconscious repressions, without losing energy. The perfect orgasm Reich was looking for was the valley orgasm. He didn't know that. ... There is no perfect peak orgasm. That was the illusion."
Stanley E. Bass is grossly mistaken if he believes that Wilhelm Reich WASN'T searching for a way to get the regular, ejaculating, sex-having man and regular woman to experience full-body release, resulting in the dismantling of subconscious repressions. While it is debatable whether Wilhelm Reich ever practiced non-ejaculatory sex for the purpose of retaining his life-essence, (there don't seem to be any mentions of this being the case), to claim that Reich misunderstood things and was just looking for "peak orgasm" (=ejaculation) is ridiculous! Reich specifically wrote about many men being sexually repressed and inhibited, even though these men claimed that yes, they were able to ejaculate. But they never experienced the full-body orgasm that Reich was speaking of, with involuntary movements and softening of the emotional armour.
Please don't make the mistake of buying this book and giving it to your SO, either. Stanley's way of communicating will appear too mechanistic ("what about love?").
Bottom line: Sometimes it is important to communicate a concept or an idea, even if you are not a writer per se. Sometimes, however, it would help, if you would actually have some writing chops.
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