--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > > The Chinese "sex-yoga" thing also includes advice about avoiding orgasm (for both men and women, I understand). The idea being that the enlivening effect felt through the day more than compensates for the loss of a seconds long firework display.
Which "Chinese sex-yoga" tradition would that be? Sounds like myth to me, based on an over-familiarity with more Indian, more repressed traditions. Suffice it so say that such an idea would never have occurred to the tonic herb masters. One cup of tea, and they'd have more than "replenished" anything "lost." :-) > They could be on to something but it sounds unnatural to me. Orgasm = guilty pleasure. In my opinion, the whole celibacy thing was invented by those with serious Yang deficiencies (not to mention psychological deficiences), and thus ill in both body and mind. > Re the herbs: in this day of the internet I'd imagine you could locate the secret recipe used by your herbalist to the stars. A Google came up with the following Chinese aphrodisiac ingredient: goat penis. Let me know if that boosts your sex life.0 *Not* one of the ingredients in the tea I sampled. Such things are looked down upon by real tonic herb masters as much as they seem to be by you. There *are*, however, herbal ingredients that actually cause the effects wrongly attributed to such fads.
