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			<title>Healing Psychosexual Wounds Through Tantric Practices</title>
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<p>Tantric practices provide a transformative approach to healing psychosexual wounds by addressing the physical, intellectual, and spiritual dimensions of sexuality. This exploration reveals how ancient teachings can help modern individuals overcome guilt and shame, fostering deeper intimacy and connections between partners.</p>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 08:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>What is the Tantric Ritual or Practice of Maithuna?</title>
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<p>Maithuna is a transformative Tantric ritual that transcends physical pleasure, aiming for spiritual awakening through sacred union. By employing meditation, mantras, and yogic practices, practitioners engage in a profound exchange of energy. However, this complex ritual demands deep commitment and understanding to navigate its challenges and potential risks.</p>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Freeing the Female Orgasm</title>
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<p>Women's capacity for orgasm seems almost limitless. Why is it then that many women are frustrated rather than satisfied? Why is it that for so many loving couples, the female orgasm remains an elusive dream; one in which she's perhaps become resigned to sex that's..</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2021 18:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Transforming Sexual Energy with Taoist Practices</title>
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<p>To be a Taoist is to experience life as a harmonious flow of life energy. In the traditional Taoist terms, this flow in humans is from breath to sex essence to spirit. It flows both visibly and invisibly, in a never-ending cycle. Regardless of your attitude toward life...</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2021 18:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Does Genuine Sex Education Require Esoteric Techniques?</title>
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<p>When most people think of the word "sex" they think of copulation, not Life. They think of what happens for a specific period of time with specific physical organs, (possibly including a little foreplay and afterplay), and they limit sex to that.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2021 10:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Is when you lose your virginity and have your first kid really written in your genes?</title>
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<p>Your first time having sex and when you have your first child are memorable moments in life. But what influences the timing of these? One research team set out to discover whether our genes play a role.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 08:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Young people are eager to have sex, but will post-pandemic hookups bring happiness or despair?</title>
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<p>As an associate teaching professor who teaches a very large human sexuality class at the University of Washington, I benefit from frequent access to young people’s inner thoughts and desires surrounding relationships and sex.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2021 08:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Why Do Women Still Get Judged So Harshly For Having Casual Sex?</title>
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<p class="legacy">In a new study, we found that women – but not men – continue to be perceived negatively for having casual sex. This stereotype persists even as casual sex has become increasingly normalized and gender equality has risen in the U.S. and much of the Western world. Specifically, both men and women assume that a woman who has casual sex must have low self-esteem.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2021 08:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Young People Learn About Relationships From Media</title>
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<p class="legacy">Adequate, formal sexual education is important for young people, but discussions about consent can take place in many situations outside the sex education classroom and outside of school.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2021 08:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Not As Simple As 'No Means No'? What Young People Need To Know About Consent</title>
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<p class="legacy">A recent petition circulated by Sydney school girl Chanel Contos called for schools to provide better education on consent, and to do so much earlier.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2021 08:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>An Ideal Partner: The Search Is On</title>
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<p>Millions will be looking for the "love of their lives" until they die. They will look, and never realize that real love might already have found them. Being loved means owning up to the responsibility of being loved, which is -- in the long run -- more difficult than asking for (or looking for) love.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2021 13:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>The 2nd Chakra: Your Doorway to Sensuality, Sexuality, and Pleasure</title>
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<p><span style="background-color: transparent;">When basic pleasures are denied, such as your healthy sexuality, emotional expression, and sensual curiosity, you may find yourself choosing substitute 'pleasures' such as drugs, drinking, video games, television, and overeating. You may also resort to negative behaviors...</span></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2021 23:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>The Yoni Egg: A Key to Female Energy, Inner Beauty, and Self-Confidence</title>
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<p>I first heard about yoni eggs in Thailand, several years ago.&nbsp;I was immediately intrigued by this small, oval, polished stone and wanted to learn more about it and test it. I was excited to discover a “women’s secret” that would allow me to free my female energy, reveal my inner beauty, and restore my self-confidence.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2021 16:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Complete Union: Honor The Soul First</title>
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<p>When a woman and man join, the coming together of bodies is the least of the meetings taking place. While the five senses are engaging in intense sensations, the minds of the two people are merging with all of their desires, aversions and thoughts. More important and more binding, the souls of the individuals are uniting, bringing together all of their hopes, dreams, sorrows; past, present and future.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2020 23:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Loving Yourself through the Joy of Masturbation</title>
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<p>My first post-marital relationship was a sexual turning point. Blake was an exciting man. At the time we met, I'd been off alcohol for three years, so we were both completely drug free. We started mainlining sex. I intended to explore sex passionately and in depth without the interference of church or state.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2020 08:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>How A Sexy Mindset Makes Partners Seem Hotter</title>
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<p>We see possible romantic partners as a lot more attractive if we have what scientists call “a sexy mindset,” according to a new study.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2020 10:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>How Women Use Mobile Apps To Learn About Sexuality and Improve Their Sexual Relationships</title>
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<p>New research offers an unprecedented look at how women around the world interact with dating and sex-related mobile apps.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Speak To Me Of Love - Not Bills and Housecleaning</title>
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<p>Foreplay is a 24 hour a day affair for most women, in that it is everything that happens between partners during the day. For a woman, foreplay begins when the couple awakens in the morning. From that moment on, everything her partner says and everything her partner does affects how she will feel sexually...</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2020 13:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Common Misunderstandings About Preventing Pregnancy</title>
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<p class="legacy">Sex is one of the most natural things in the world – none of us would be here without it. Yet there are many things about sex that need to be learned.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2020 07:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Why Homosexuality May Have Evolved For Social, Not Sexual Reasons</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p><img title="Why Homosexuality May Have Evolved For Social, Not Sexual Reasons" src="/images/2020r/5e44a29eecf7363cdbdff4ca23abb6c5.jpg" alt="Why Homosexuality May Have Evolved For Social, Not Sexual Reasons" width="633" height="362" /><br />How did homosexuality in humans evolve? Typically, this question is posed as a paradox.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 13:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Why Having Sex On The Mind Makes People Lie</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2019 07:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Experiencing Tantra: Spiritual Oneness Is Always Accompanied By Deep Love</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>What Is Sex Really For? It's More Than The Obvious Reasons</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2019 07:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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