The Healing Powers of Tantric Sex

The word "healing" pops up a lot in connection with everything from physical health to emotional health to psychic health to sexual health. This liberal use suggests a general trend toward promoting healthy whole-body systems that better serve us as human beings. It's a mind-body-spirit lifestyle approach.

But the ancient Tantrics were ahead of our way of thinking and promoted this mind-body-spirit philosophy of living through various means with the Kama Sutra, the Artha Sutra and the Dharma Sutra. The Artha Sutra dealt with acquiring a comfortable means of income and survival, while the Dharma Sutra presented the scriptures for moral values. The Kama Sutra prescribed sexual techniques and the means by which a person could create an optimum degree of sensual and sexual pleasure in his or her life. These three scriptures were the guides to a fully functioning life.

Western societies, however, don't value the pursuit of a happy, active sexual life for "morally upstanding" people. This is unfortunate, because scientists have proven that love, care and sex can lead to a longer life for both sexes.