Tantric Sex

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(1) A philosophical ‘strand’ of tantra yoga, in which worship services take the form of a sexual ritual featuring slow, non-orgasmic intercourse as a prelude to an experience of the divine
(2) A popularisation of spiritual-sexual technique derived from Indian tantra yoga and linked to the sexual revolution in cultural mores of the late 1960s and 1970s
(3) A term used erroneously for Western religious or spiritual practices in which slow, mindful sexual union—or masturbation—creates a path to the experience of spiritual ecstasy