Merits of Tantra and Hypersexual Disorder

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THE MERIT OF TANTRA AND HYPERSEXUAL DISORDER!

By  John Seagull 

As we have pointed out in other articles and chapters of this book, the Tantra Way is a long passage to discover the inner potential of human psyche and sexuality! As an outcome of social conditioning and the social taboos, which have some dominant after effects of some religious conditioning, the human beings forgot to be natural for centuries! Tantra is a method to regain this natural structure of the spiritual understanding of human nature and sexuality! Sex is not a happening that occurs at the genitals, but mostly in the brain. It has been shown by some scientists (such as Barry Komisaruk) that the female brain can attain orgasms, even though there are no genital stimulations. The fMRI research reveals some other facts of these “Brain Orgasms” in women, who have hemiplegia or sacral orgasmic center disconnection. During the last 5 years, it has been noted that brain is the main orgasm triggering organ, rather than the genitals and sacral sexual plexuses! Those nerves and hot spots just carry the information to the brain to get pleasure through the pleasure centers of the brain.

The strict religious beliefs that had an effect on the societies had a hypothesis that “Sex and pleasure are dirty, sinful and one would go to Hell, if too much emphasis is made on sexual pleasure!” One hundred years ago, speaking about female orgasm was banned in most of the Western societies until Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Van de Velde, Havelock Ellis and Kraft Ebbing studied the sexuality and founded the basics of “ The Science of Sex” ! However in Eastern cultures the limits of female sexuality had been investigated for centuries. While Western religions put so many inhibitions on sexual pleasure, Indian Goddesses were orgasming limitlessly in the statues since the 2nd century! So was China.

Actually, in Paganism and Shamanism, the wisdom man and women (some call them witches!) human was a part of Mother Nature and sexual pleasure was so natural! All women shamans were trained in hyper-orgasmic functioning thousands of years ago until the religions put an end to this sexual wisdom and were afraid of the sexual potentials of women! In shamanic rituals women used to have a tremendous freedom to attain climaxes just as Tantric cultures did!

Today we are facing similar concern about limiting female sexual potential by governments, not by the church, but by psychiatric associations and psychiatrists. For instance according to new criteria of DSM-V (will be valid in 2013), HDSI (Hyper Sexual Disorder Screening Inventory), it is again becoming SIN to have more than 9 orgasms a week, or thinking too much about sex! Too much sex (!) is becoming a mental disorder to be treated! What is too much sex? Who decides sex to be too much for whom? And WHY? If a woman who can attain 9 orgasms a night (makes 30 to 42 times a week) would be accepted as lunatic, and fantasizing more than 3 hours a day would be accepted as a mental disorder, one should consider the possible poor sex lives of the people who are determining these criteria as universal! And we suggest them Tantra!

When you read about 1000-2000 years old scriptures of Tantra and Taoism, then it should be estimated that DSM-V’s hypersexual disorder is centuries old! Here we can understand the merits of Tantra and make it more understandable that why our efforts to combine science with Tantra is of importance so much! In Neo Tantra we should take the good aspects, attitudes and practice of Tantra, Taoism and Zen then make a unification of this nature with the modern scientific developments and facts! Because we believe that only science can find the reality and truth! Here, of course, we have to veil the metaphysical aspects of the Eastern belief systems and their traditions, since they are just other trials of explanations of the truths with their times' axioms and methods centuries ago! But these axioms or methods are not valid anymore since they were utilizing metaphysical methods and models, such as chakra system, kundalini energy and others! Today we know that although Tantra mentions about chakras and kundalini energy, they have counterpart explanations in modern science and medicine today. Unfortunately, some Tantric charlatans and abusers of Tantra are using these metaphysical systems just to make more MONEY out of the name of Tantra and old Tantric traditions. Neo Tantra is the scientific Tantra!

For the cited reasons, one should understand the merits of Neo Tantra as in the following postulates:

·        Neo Tantra only accepts the reality and scientific truths. No metaphysics is allowed in Neo Tantra. However there may be some spiritualistic views of the human psyche in Neo Tantra.

·        Neo Tantra uses good aspects and merits of old classical Tantra, but adds more to it, according to the findings of modern medicine, modern sexology and modern science.

·        Neo Tantra is against to put any limits to the sexual responsiveness and sexual freedom of human psyche by any means, just like in the case of HDSI criteria in the proposed DSM-V (2013).

·        Neo Tantra is in favor of discovering the unraveled facts about female and male sexuality. Such as Expanded Sexual Response (ESR).

·        Neo Tantra is in favor of promoting sexual freedom, sexual pleasure and sexual revolution.

·        Neo Tantra uses many other philosophies such as ZEN, Taoism, Buddhism, Humanitarian psychology, Transpersonal psychology, modern sexology, and modern philosophical thoughts.