The sexual fire breath is one of the best exercises, especially with a partner (but you can also do it alone), for rapidly building a hot sexual charge and moving it up through your body, helping to open all of your chakra centers. In the sexual fire breath you use a combination of sound, pelvic rocking, PC (pubococcygeous) muscle squeezes, deep abdominal breathing, visualization and hand movements.

Use the sexual fire breath on your own to open yourself to your full exquisite sexual potential. Do it as a charger-upper before making love. Do it during lovemaking as you are being manually or orally stimulated. Do it during intercourse, but be very observant and ready to stop in a flash in the early learning stages or the man may go beyond his point of no return to ejaculate before you are both ready to end the lovemaking. If “energy” is very subtle for you and you don’t usually feel it, try this exercise. Most report really feeling something the very first time they do the sexual fire breath.

Sexual Fire Breath

• Lie on your back. Feet flat on the floor/bed. Knees bent. Legs comfortably apart. Hands at your sides, palms up. Eyes closed.
• Begin to breathe slowly and deeply into your belly.
• Focus your attention on your genitals and visualize drawing breath in and out through them.
• When you have a comfortable breathing rhythm established, begin to rock your pelvis, tilting it up toward the sky.

Use your feet to slightly push off the floor so that you are not using your abdominal muscles to rock and they can remain loose and open.

• Inhale as you rock back. Exhale as you rock forward. (Note: some bodies want to do it the opposite way – listen to yours and go with what feels right).
• Make sound as you exhale – AAAAAHHHH. (This is the most difficult part for many people but it helps enormously, sound carries the energy).
• When you are in a comfortable rhythm, add PC Pumping. Tighten your PC muscles as you rock back. Relax them as you rock forward. (Note: your body might want to do it the opposite way, let it.)
• Begin to visualize your sexual energy as a great ball of golden fire in your genitals. As you rock, breathe and pump draw the golden fireball up through your chakra centers, one chakra at a time.
• Send the energy out through your crown chakra into the universe. Do not leave it to build up in your head. If you are making love with a partner, you can also pass the energy to him through your eyes, your kiss, your breath.
• Pass your hands in flowing motions up your body to help with the energy movement.
• Breathe more rapidly to move the energy higher within your body, allowing yourself to open into its flow.
• When you reach a high edge of energetic arousal you can maintain this level by deepening and slowing your breathing and keeping your body relaxed.
• Rest in stillness for a few moments when you are finished practicing so that the energy can continue to flow through you. Bring it back down and store it in your belly chakra for later use.
• If you have left a store of energy in your head and feel some congestion there do Grounding and apply firm pressure with your fingertips to your crown chakra.

Excerpted from our Tantra and Kama Sutra Sex Positions eBook.

However attitudes did start to change as ideas changed. Charles Darwin shook Christianity with his theory of evolution. He cut God out of the equation claiming that humans derived from apes. Evolving through phases – we later discovered these as fossils. (Homo Habilis being particularly interesting being the tool maker! how appropriate?) Therefore Darwin stated that we were indeed not children of God but animals, although on an intelligent scale but still with innate animal characteristics.

Soon after Sigmund Freud’s out-burst of sexually orientated child development theory leaned on the view that we were in fact animals motivated by three innate basic life preservation instincts – food, warmth and the need to reproduce.

These theories had well to do Victorian middle class men engaged in hunting, shooting and fishing as they went back to their caveman roots.

Similarly these men were going from cave to cave impregnating any willing female (despite wide spread deterrents against anything other than marital sex for reproducing – i.e. – masturbation allegedly causing blindness, insanity, heart disease amongst other ailments; and oral sex causing cancer) – Thus prostitution was rife. Which may have been contributed to by Darwin and Freud’s theories which tend to excuse us from such behaviours. Although having a mistress or using the services of a loose woman (so called due to the slack lacing up of her corset to save time whilst working) it may also have been tolerated due to the old double standards – those activities are acceptable for men and not for women.

Only a couple of decades later in post war Britain during the 20’s, sexual liberation was emerging, paving the way for the liberated 60’s. A time of hippies, youth culture, women’s independence, drugs, free love and the contraceptive pill – enabling women too have pre-marital sex; sexually experiment and explore and to enjoy sex without the fear of unwanted pregnancy.

Since then despite the threat of AIDS, sexual liberation is still evolving in the way of previously hidden sexual practices becoming more accepted and public – i.e. – swinging, wife swapping, transvestism and sadomasochism. Society’s changing attitudes and acceptance of these activities is portrayed in the media.

Sex liberation and evolving ideas within this sphere has also made sex toys less of a taboo, this is illustrated with the appearance of sex shops arriving on the High Street – i.e. – Anne Summers. And yet the contents of these shops are not such a new innovation.

The Kama Sutra for example has been around for hundreds of years. Written between 100 and 400 AD for the nobility of India. Contrary to popular belief it contains more than just unusual sex positions, but additionally includes mood setting, sensual touch, embrace, kissing, foreplay and afterplay (well worth a read by those wham bam types!) Therefore the Kama Sutra indicates the importance that the people who used it placed on good lovemaking.

The Kama Sutra also encompasses the use of sensual smelling oils, aromas, bathing products and massage implements and techniques which very often are available in sex shops.

The ancient Greeks claim the rights to the first recorded reference to the ‘dildo’, which at that time went under the name of olisbos. Trading merchants are said to have sold these crude; wood, stone or leather hand crafted objects to single and lonely women, who used olive oil as a lubricant. On their journey west, the olisbos was renamed, and it is commonly believed that dildo derives for the Italian word diletto, to delight. Back home, rubber dildos were introduced around 1850, to delight the English.

Also during the Victorian era, vibrations were causing ripples and the development of the vibrator.

At this time female hysteria was treated with a vibrating device on the females genitalia. Treatment was completed after the point of paroxysm – orgasm.

Its thought that during this period of time that women were not seen as sexual creatures, but maybe someone saw the treatment for hysteria and thought otherwise, because in the late 19th century, when electric was becoming more wide spread vibrators began appearing. Although, only to doctors primarily for the treatment of patients. However, In 1918 vibrators were being advertised in magazines, still masquerading as health therapy for hysterical women. Yet in 1921, the magazine advertisements were suggesting that husbands should buy a ‘massager’ for their wife to keep her healthy young and beautiful. This shows a change in direction for the usage of the vibrator in that, its not just a healing aid but an ideal gift, and bringing the husband into the picture may give off notions that it is for pleasure together as a couple.

But during the 1920s, early blue movies showed women using the devices not for their camouflaged purpose but for sexual stimulation. Early pornography stripped vibrators of their social camouflage, and by 1930, they were no longer openly advertised.

Although the swinging sixties helped in the recovery of the vibrating device, and since then changing social attitudes towards vibrator has evoked a large demanding market, not only for vibrators but other sex toys. A wide variety of toys and tools can easily be found and obtained, especially with the introduction of the Internet.

Thank God for evolution, both human evolution and the sex toy kind! And God blesses vibrators everywhere; where ever you are!

India with its vast population and ancient history understandably has had changing attitudes towards sex.

The history of sex in India has been affected by many things, the caste system, colonization, and latterly globalisation. There has been a turnaround in attitudes towards sex recently and a return to attitudes that were common in ancient times.

Although the Kama Sutra is popularly known today in Western countries as a guide to sex, Indian attitudes towards sex has been almost prudish until recently. An influx of Western culture has slowly seen a sexual revolution unfolding in India .

The Kama Sutra

The Kama Sutra is one of the surviving texts about the sixty four arts of love making. It was not widely distributed by everyone in India . The history of sex in India was always guided by the caste system, as it is today. Sex between castes was often forbidden.The higher castes and those belonging to the nobility practised the sixty four arts. There were many versions of the arts, some of which have been lost forever. These guides were highly influential and spread as far as Japan .

The Kama Sutra comes from a time when India had relatively liberal ideas towards sex. Sex was considered a duty to be carried out by married couples, and husband and wife were to pleasure each other equally. These liberal attitudes towards sex are not consistent throughout the history of sex in India .

Colonization

Colonization had a very big impact on the history of sex in India . British colonists brought with them a Victorian attitude towards sex and propriety. The establishment of British rule meant that British ideas towards sex slowly spread throughout India . This severely curbed sexual freedom and many respected Indians adopted this form of thinking towards sex.

Globalization

While the West experienced the beginnings of a sexual revolution in the 1960’s and 70’s, India remained in its colonial past in terms of attitudes towards sex. It has only started to open up to ideas about sex and sexual freedom in recent years as exposure towards Western standards on sexual freedom has increased.

Depictions of sex in movies and television has been rare, even kissing scenes are considered by many Indians. This however is changing, with sex slowly creeping into the cinema. The liberalization of sexual attitudes in modern India has marked a new chapter in the history of sex in India . The AIDS epidemic has taken hold of India .

The large amount of AIDS cases is largely to do with the population of India . However the problem of poor sex education is also part of the problem. Many people in rural areas do not know they are infected and continue to infect others.

Original article : History Of Sex In India And Its Changing Role