Pronounced As: tuntr , in both Hinduism and Buddhism, esoteric tradition of ritual and yoga known for elaborate use of mantra, or symbolic speech, and mandala, or symbolic  diagrams; the importance of female deities, or Shakti;  cremation-ground practices such as meditation on corpses;  and, more so in Hindu than in Buddhist tantra, the ritual use of  wine, meat, and sexual intercourse. Tantric practices use both ritual and meditation to unify the devotee with the chosen  deity. In Hindu Tantra, practice is graded into three types, corresponding to three classes of devotees: the animal, i.e.,  those in whom the guna, or quality, of tamas (darkness)  predominates; the heroic, those in whom the guna of rajas (activity) predominates; and the divine, those in whom sattva (goodness) predominates (see Hindu philosophy). The  practice of the heroic devotee entails actual use of the five  elements, called the five m's: fish (matsya), meat (mamsa),  wine (madya), aphrodisiac cereals (mudra), and sexual  intercourse (maithuna). The animal devotee, not yet ready for  the heroic practice, performs the rituals with material symbols;  for the divine devotee the rituals are purely internal and symbolic. The object of the rituals, attainable only by the divine  devotee, is to awaken kundalini energy, which is identified  with Shakti, and merge with the Godhead. In Buddhist Tantra,  or Vajrayana, in contrast to the Hindu, the female principle of  "wisdom (prajna) is seen as static, whereas the male, or "means (upaya), is active. In Buddhism, rituals that appear to  break basic moral precepts have for the most part been dropped, but the complex meditation practices have been retained.

The Kama Sutra, the classical Indian treatise on the Art of Love, describes Sixty-four Arts to be practiced along with the Kama Sutra.  The number sixty-four reminds of the hexagrams of the I Ching.  These arts add to one's graciousness, charm, and desirability.  These arts and sciences  include singing, music, dancing, writing, drawing, painting, sewing, reading, recitation, poetry, sculpture, gymnastics, games, flower arranging, cooking, decoration, perfumery, gardening, mimicry, mental exercises, languages, etiquette, carpentry, magic, chemistry, mineralogy, herbology, healing, gambling, architecture, logic, charm-making, religious rites, household management, disguise, physical sports, and martial arts plus many contemporary activities.  We might include recent technical innovations, such as digital photography, and leading-edge notions such as the marriage of science and art in physicist Nick Herbert's Quantum Tantra.

Find more on sacred sex and the 64 Arts of Tantra in:

Miller, Richard A., THE MAGICAL AND RITUAL USE OF HERBS, OAK Press, Seattle, ©1977 - reprinted by Destiny Books, 1983.

Miller, Richard A., THE MAGICAL AND RITUAL USE OF APHRODISIACS, Destiny Books, New York, 1985.

Miller, Richard and Iona, THE MAGICAL AND RITUAL USE OF PERFUMES, Destiny Books, New York, 1990.

Miller, Richard and Iona, THE MODERN ALCHEMIST, Phanes Press, Grand Rapids, 1994.

SEX AROUND THE WORLD

[Paraphrased from "International Sex Handbook", Susan Crain Baikos, Glamour, August 2001, p.148]

ITALY

Your inspiration: Monica Belluci in Malena
Sex technique: The corksrew twist, an appealing addition to the woman-on-top position.

How to do it: Remember that Sit n' Spin toy you had as a kid?  Try the adult version.  Sit on top of him, put him inside you and lean forward, lifting yourself three quarters of the way up his penis (put your hands on his shoulders for balance).  Then move your pelvis to the right and push yourself down at the same time; pull back up and then move your pelvis to the left as you push down again.  Go back and forth like this until he can't remember his own name but is moaning yours.  For advanced students:  Tighten you PC muscles on the downward push, then relax them while coming back up.  Or bend backward while doing the corkscrew twist, your hand resting on his knees.
ETM (Estimated time before mastery): Less than 10 minutes.

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SPAIN

Your inspiration: Victoria Abril in Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down
Sex technique: Fellatio

How to do it: Using silk scarves, lightly bind his wrists to the bedposts.  When you're sure he can't move, grip his penis in your hand and run your tongue around the head like it's the best gelato you've ever had.  Next, stroke his penis from the head down to the base (most men prefer the downward stroke).  By now he ought to be harder than calculus.

After a few minutes, hold the base of his penis (not too firmly--you're not switching gears) while you wet your lips and place your mouth over the head of his penis.  Then run your lips and tongue up and down the corona (the ridge separating the head from the shaft) and the frenulum (the section of skin on the underside of the penis from the coronal ridge to the beginning of the penile shaft).  With your free hand, lightly massage both his scrotum and perineum (the skin between the base of the penis and the anus).

Try the tongue strokes favored by Spanish women, such as the "silken swirl," in which you slide the head of his penis in and out of your mouth while simultaneously and continuously circling it with your tongue--it's like rubbing your stomach and patting your head, but with a payoff -- and the "butterfly flick," in which you flick your tongue lightly and rapidly across the corona.
ETM: Three to four sessions and you can lick anybody.

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FRANCE

Your inspiration: Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour
Sex technique: The authentic French kiss.

How to do it:  Instead of that overeager teen approach, go for slow, delicate moves.  Kiss his lips, then suck each one gently.  Draw your tongue across them.  Circle his tongue with the tip of your own, pull back and do it again.  Then run the tip of your tongue along the edges and underside of his tongue.  When this has driven you both sufficiently wild, thrust you tongue in and out in rhythmic movements--but not too quickly or for too long--then go back to the moves you were doing before.  By this point, you should know his mouth better than his dentist does--and be well on your way to some more serious below-the-neck exploration.
ETM: Like a croissant, you heat it up in three minutes or less.

MOROCCO

Your inspiration: Salma Hayek's dance scene in From Dusk Till Dawn
Sex tecnique: Belly Dancer's eye embrace.

How to do it:  All women know that if you want to discover the truth, you just look in someone's eyes.  Luckily, there are three levels of provocative eye contact that will let you convey what you may be too shy to express--basically, you think the dirty thoughts, and your eyes wil do all the dirty talking for you.  First is the brief intense glance, in which you instantly lock eyes with your partner for just a second or two and then quickly avert your own.  Second is the eye flirt, during which you repeatedly look away and then back as a tease.  Finally, there's the eye embrace, a deep engagement that last longer than a few second.  Use them all.  And make love with your eyes open.
ETM: 10 minutes.

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INDIA

Your inspiration: Sarita Choudhury in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
Sex technique: Butterfly Quiver, a specialty of ancient Hinu priestesses meant to intensify orgasms.

How to do it:  You'll need two things for this.  One is a set of PC muscles that could yank a cork from a champagne bottle; the other is a very cooperative partner.  Have intercourse in any position, but pay attention to his arousal level.  When he's near ejaculation, ask him to thrust as slowly as he can.  Keep your pelvis still and pulsate your PC muscles, contracting and releasing like the flutter of butterfly wings.  During this quick grip-and-release motion, he'll feel as if his orgasm is being pulled from his body.
ETM: Up to two months; less if you've been doing your Kegels regularly. (Squeeze the muscles you use to stop the flow of urine; hold each squeeze for 10 seconds and do 20 10-second holds five times a day.)

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ENGLAND

Your Inspiration: Kristin Scott Thomas in The English Patient
Sex technique: British love bites (rough kisses on lips and nipples)

How to do it:  After a long bout of kissing, take his lower lip between your lips and suck firmly, not as if you're trying to get a shake though a straw--you don't want to cause injury--but enough so that it's a surprise.  Graze his earlobe with you teeth, then gently bite down on itt.  Do the same thing to his nipples.  Let his reaction guide you as to how much pressure is good--some people like a little pain, some don't.  Just don't go performing any piercings without a license.
ETM: Less than five minutes.

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JAPAN

Your inspiration: Eiko Matsuda in In the Realm of the Senses
Sex tecnique: Electronic orgasms

How to do it:  Modern Japanese women are among the world's sex-toy experts.  Like them, you can order toys from catalogs or online.  Consider the Butterfly, a vibrator that attaches to a G-string and covers the clitoral area.  This can be used to arouse you for intercourse or worn during intercourse.  Or wear a specially designed vibrator on the back of your hand as you manually stimulate him and feel like Jamie Sommers as the Bionic woman.  For example, during fellatio, hold the shaft of his penis with your vibrator hand, moving it up and down the shaft while you do some of the tricks you learned in, oh, say Spain.
ETM:  Less than 10 minutes.

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For more explicit sexual tricks, try
Sex Tips for Girls, and
the new Advanced Sex Tips for Girls, by Cynthia Heimel

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