The book reminds me of a time in the early days of TantraNova when Freddy Zental and I were contacted by a couple that runs annual swinger conventions serving hundreds of couples from all across the US. We agreed to offer a workshop and thought teaching Tantra to swingers would be a piece of cake because – so we thought – inhibitions, embarrassment or fear regarding one’s body, nudity, etc. were let go of.
Our workshop was attended by some thirty couples and we taught them about the TantraNova basics as well as the healing ritual for the woman. Halfway through the workshop we invited the participants and giving them a choice to do sexual healing work with their partner. Half of the couples stayed on while half of them left.
In the evening, on the way to the dinner ball, a couple came up to us. The woman introduced herself and her husband who had been married for 12 years and swinging for eight. She placed her right hand on Freddy Zental’s arm, looked at us and said: “You two were fabulous. I liked so much what you were doing with us in the workshop. However, I could not stay when you asked us to do sexual healing work with my husband because I was afraid of what I might see if I gazed into his eyes.”
My jaw dropped. It took me a while to compose myself. I looked at her and was wondering about all that sexual freedom and expression she had been involved in though being truly intimate and deeply connected with her husband was something to be afraid of?
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