Talking Tantra - A Taste of Tantra and Tabloid Terminology
Having attainted a touch of tantric notoriety media people want to interview one, not to report what one has to say but what they perceive their clientele wants to hear, read or see. I guess my strongest taste of that to date was the Extreme Celebrity Detox TV series - click here for the lowdown on that - following which I got tabloided swinging mighty weights from my lunchbox and described as the 'man who taught Rebecca Loos where to put her Jade Egg.'
So what? well, I have made some discoveries about media use of our language. Trying to appear impersonal and discursive while retailing their salacity, they tweak the words to 'sex up the sexy bits' while sounding like doctors.
Snip from interview for forthcoming TV series which is offering to show interesting connections between sex and science:
Q: How do you have sex without intercourse?
A (thinking, what school did they go to): Solo cultivation together is one way...
Q: Solo cultivation?
A: Sex with oneself. Solo. On one's own.
Q: You mean masturbation?
A: Well that can sound clinical to some people while for others the word has connotations of guilt and shame. We like to keep things light. We could say self-pleasuring or self-stimulation.
Q: People won't know what you're talking about. They understand masturbation. What about foreplay?
A: Again, solo cultivation together, or pleasuring each other by hand, tongue...
Q: Masturbation?
A: As I said....
Q: Is there any kind of stimulation other than masturbation?
A (thinking, interviewer must really like that word): Your scientist participants would concur that touch is only one means of sensory stimulation. Although probably the strongest in the sexual context, we have sight and hearing, smell and taste.
Q: But they all lead to masturbation, don't they. Let's move on.
Well now. It made me think of how tantrics distinguish their terms of reference both from the clinical Latin and those beautiful onomatopaeic Anglo-Saxon words alas considered obscene (or have been following the Norman Conquest but I'll dismount right now from that particular hobby-horse.) Our language is enriched by its corruption, as a pheasant becomes tastier from a few days hanging, or eiswein from frost-rotted grapes.
What they call: Masturbation.
We call: Solo cultivation/self stimulation/self pleasuring.
You call: Wanking, and many more tho' some might be derivatives of Latin/clinical eg ejaculating=jerking off
Interesting aside: another interviewer purportedly seeking tips to spice up (his) readers' sex lives but not having bothered to read Tips on Taoist Tantra was more interested in
"What would you say to people who thinks its disgusting?"
"I'd ask them how they would like to spice up their sex life."
He'd only read the headline 'Is it disgusting boring worthy and dangerous or can Tantra offer self-realisation by having a good time?' The rest of the article answered his question.
What about full-on penetrative sex?
Coitus/sexual intercourse.
Dual cultivation/congress/Clouds and Rain.
Fucking, and many more: could 'shagging' be a derivative of Shakti (sanskrit: female tantric deity) sometimes depicted having sex with Shiva's (male tantric deity) corpse?
Another interesting aside: another interviewer (something to do with "The Lost Art of Sex" - where do they come from?) asked me what was the most outrageous tantric practice?
"Fucking corpses" I replied to stunned silence. I don't s'pose they'll show that bit (Oi! saying it not doing it!) and only believed me when I was able to refer them to Svoboda's book 'Aghora: at the Left Hand of God', and Arthur Avalon's (pen-name for Sir John Woodroffe, a High Court Judge at the turn of the last century) translation of the Tantric Classics.
Penis.
Vajra, lingam, Jade Stalk.
Cock etc (difference between cock and willie? one stands up and crows, the other's cute and soft.)
Vagina, vulva (Lation word deriving valve - interesting hey, a valve being something of a one-way thing)
Yoni, Jade Gate, Golden Lotus
Cunt
Testes, testicles
Dragon Pearls
Balls
Semen
Heaven's Dew (also used for menstrual fluid)
Cum
The rest I leave to you. Let's make a compendium. Or has someone already done so? Either way, start the New Year the way you mean to go on.
Happy 2006
PS have you seen my book yet? click here to peek at A Touch of Sex
or interesting articles on Women's Practices and Male Ejaculation Formulas.
So what? well, I have made some discoveries about media use of our language. Trying to appear impersonal and discursive while retailing their salacity, they tweak the words to 'sex up the sexy bits' while sounding like doctors.
Snip from interview for forthcoming TV series which is offering to show interesting connections between sex and science:
Q: How do you have sex without intercourse?
A (thinking, what school did they go to): Solo cultivation together is one way...
Q: Solo cultivation?
A: Sex with oneself. Solo. On one's own.
Q: You mean masturbation?
A: Well that can sound clinical to some people while for others the word has connotations of guilt and shame. We like to keep things light. We could say self-pleasuring or self-stimulation.
Q: People won't know what you're talking about. They understand masturbation. What about foreplay?
A: Again, solo cultivation together, or pleasuring each other by hand, tongue...
Q: Masturbation?
A: As I said....
Q: Is there any kind of stimulation other than masturbation?
A (thinking, interviewer must really like that word): Your scientist participants would concur that touch is only one means of sensory stimulation. Although probably the strongest in the sexual context, we have sight and hearing, smell and taste.
Q: But they all lead to masturbation, don't they. Let's move on.
Well now. It made me think of how tantrics distinguish their terms of reference both from the clinical Latin and those beautiful onomatopaeic Anglo-Saxon words alas considered obscene (or have been following the Norman Conquest but I'll dismount right now from that particular hobby-horse.) Our language is enriched by its corruption, as a pheasant becomes tastier from a few days hanging, or eiswein from frost-rotted grapes.
What they call: Masturbation.
We call: Solo cultivation/self stimulation/self pleasuring.
You call: Wanking, and many more tho' some might be derivatives of Latin/clinical eg ejaculating=jerking off
Interesting aside: another interviewer purportedly seeking tips to spice up (his) readers' sex lives but not having bothered to read Tips on Taoist Tantra was more interested in
"What would you say to people who thinks its disgusting?"
"I'd ask them how they would like to spice up their sex life."
He'd only read the headline 'Is it disgusting boring worthy and dangerous or can Tantra offer self-realisation by having a good time?' The rest of the article answered his question.
What about full-on penetrative sex?
Coitus/sexual intercourse.
Dual cultivation/congress/Clouds and Rain.
Fucking, and many more: could 'shagging' be a derivative of Shakti (sanskrit: female tantric deity) sometimes depicted having sex with Shiva's (male tantric deity) corpse?
Another interesting aside: another interviewer (something to do with "The Lost Art of Sex" - where do they come from?) asked me what was the most outrageous tantric practice?
"Fucking corpses" I replied to stunned silence. I don't s'pose they'll show that bit (Oi! saying it not doing it!) and only believed me when I was able to refer them to Svoboda's book 'Aghora: at the Left Hand of God', and Arthur Avalon's (pen-name for Sir John Woodroffe, a High Court Judge at the turn of the last century) translation of the Tantric Classics.
Penis.
Vajra, lingam, Jade Stalk.
Cock etc (difference between cock and willie? one stands up and crows, the other's cute and soft.)
Vagina, vulva (Lation word deriving valve - interesting hey, a valve being something of a one-way thing)
Yoni, Jade Gate, Golden Lotus
Cunt
Testes, testicles
Dragon Pearls
Balls
Semen
Heaven's Dew (also used for menstrual fluid)
Cum
The rest I leave to you. Let's make a compendium. Or has someone already done so? Either way, start the New Year the way you mean to go on.
Happy 2006
PS have you seen my book yet? click here to peek at A Touch of Sex
or interesting articles on Women's Practices and Male Ejaculation Formulas.
posted by Kris Deva North at 5:07 AM
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