Why Tantric Sex?

Several factors have led to the popularity of tantric sex in our modern times:

-In the last two decades of the twentieth century, couples and singles suffered great distress and frustration over relationships and searched for solutions in all directions. Self-help books and courses have become increasingly popular as people seek solutions to finding and keeping the love they want.

People could choose from a growing number of approaches once considered alternative or pop psychology, but that are now much more mainstream. The options are innumerable, as is evidenced by the growing number of self-enrichment and alternative health and healing centers.

-Co-dependency and addictions of all kinds, which stem from lack of love and true intimate connection, have escalated. Sufferers and health experts are seeking, and willing to try, many new kinds of solutions to these problems.-We are moving away from the view of relationships as dysfunctional which emphasizes only negative patterns of behavior toward a more positive view, which focuses on the potential for healthy interactions.

-People have increasingly turned to medications to relieve depression and anxiety (disorders that have reached epidemic proportions), yet found these solutions disappointing.

-Pressures of corporate downsizing, increased consumerism, and technological advances have put increasing strain on relationships, causing loneliness and isolation and turning people toward Eastern philosophies, which shun materialism.

-The growing interest in improving relationships and attaining a deeper connection between lovers has led gradually to the resurgence of the Age of Aquarius, with its interest in what’s come to be called spirituality. This spirituality focuses attention on the deeper parts of one’s soul, instead of just rational reasons for coupling or particular ways that couples can stay together.

-World tensions, terrorism, and war have increased people’s distrust and distress, and therefore a desire for peace both internally and in their daily life. Tantra stands for that trust and peace, in the internal and external worlds.