Some people have approached me lately asking if Tantra encourages orgies.They see great sculptures on Tantric temples depicting several people making love to each other, which I admit looks like an orgy. However it’s far from being an orgy, and is really a higher level of expression of sexual/spiritual love. I want to shed light on the issue to encourage people who might avoid Tantra, thinking that it is about orgies, to actually take a closer look at Tantra.The safest way to practice Tantra is within a couple committed to a succulent, conscious life that has growth as its core. It takes time to nurture a relationship until one feels safe and trusting enough to consciously extend one’s love to others. Tantra counsels you should not rush into it.While some Tantric masters might make love with many lovers, it is done so consciously and with the complete approval and comfort of all participants to heighten the energy. However, it is not an orgy.Usually orgies are about having sex with people without connecting on a spiritual and emotional level. Or about enjoying watching someone having sex without risking doing it. Most people in orgies grab a breast or a buttock and don’t care whom it belongs to as long as it is pleasurable for them. Women are often objectified. Some of them don’t like it, and still put themselves in these situations to please their husband or lover; some of them like being objectified because of the harmful way they were treated in their first sexual encounter. For these women, orgies are a way of perpetrating that original hurt caused by lack of love. Tantra is not about objectification by any means.
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