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| Author: Alice B. Stockham Alice B. Stockham |
| Format: | Paperback |
Product Summary
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
ISBN-10: 1417939699
ISBN-13: 9781417939695
Buy.com Sku: 39858649
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 8.75H x 5.25L x 0.25T
Pages:
144
Age Range:
NA
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| 1896. Karezza was a name coined (from the Italian for caress) by the Victorian reformer Alice Bunker Stockham. It refers to non-religious spiritual sexual practices that draw upon tantric techniques of body control but do not involve any of tantra's cultural or iconographic symbolism. Stockham, an Ob-Gyn from Chicago, and the fifth woman to be made a doctor in the United States, traveled to northern India to learn the secrets of tantra-for example, control of the orgasm response-but she did not have any interest in Eastern religions and she felt that such addenda to the methods were not essential. Her view of spirituality was basically Quaker-Christian, and she fitted sacred sexuality into a Christian paradigm with no apparent difficulty. A most interesting read. |
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