In my last post, I discussed the similarities between tantric sex as described in this blog and the therapy program for couples described in Becoming Orgasmic: A Sexual and Personal Growth Program for Women, the pioneering guide for pre-orgasmic women, written in the 70s and updated in the 80s by Julia Heiman and Joseph Lopiccolo. And I speculated about two reasons for this similarity
First, there's the possibility that the authors were secret tantra practitioners, who used what they learned from tantric sex to fashion a therapy program for couples.
Second, it's possible that once it became possible to explore sex in a more open way, sex researchers would more or less inevitably rediscover the principles on which tantric sex is based, because once you start experimenting with slow, extended sex, you find out what works and that doing it right can have really powerful effects in terms of pleasure, in terms of altered consciousness, and in terms of bonding between partners.