Title: Red Hot Tantra Author: David Ramsdale & Cynthia W. Gentry Publisher: Fair Winds Pass Publish Date: 2004 Pages: 332 Genres:: Non-Fiction, Compilation Reviewer: SexHerald Staff

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Red Hot Tantra is an erotic version of the Choose Your Own Adventure series made famous by Edward Packard and R.A. Montgomery. The format of the book is outstanding: each erotic story comes with a companion chapter giving you encouragement and guidelines to help you achieve the same rapture as reached by the story’s characters. Ecstasy, as affirmed here, is but a bit of practice, guided imagery, and focus away. 

Tantra originated in India and dates back to a time when mother goddesses were a focal point of sexual worship. The feminine, or red tantra, named by its reference to menstrual blood, is a much freer and more spontaneous pathway to spiritual and physical pleasure, whereas male-dominated, or white tantra, taught women to “transcend” the sensations in their genitals and instead strive to experience a type of diffuse, whole-body soul orgasm.

A common thread found throughout the stories is how tantric practices evaporate sexual roadblocks as well as extinguish the insidious boredom and monotony that can invade couples’ once deeply fulfilling sex lives. In “Orange Juice,” a young woman in a new relationship overcomes an inability to climax with her lover when he introduces her to the tantric energy principle, urging her to imagine a glowing orange ball. Another woman’s severe headache is joyously alleviated by her partner’s simultaneous stimulation of her clitoris and G-spot in “Sexual Healing,” illustrating the increased ability to tolerate pain when in a sexually awakened state.

Applying tantric practices to sexual activity has the capacity to greatly intensify the power of physical encounters whether occurring with a partner or alone. There is no place for shyness or shame within their realm. Every thought, every desire is healthy and when understood with love and acceptance serves only to enhance sexual experience, not lessen or taint it. In “Tantric Slut Guru,” a prostitute who soothes her client’s exhaustion and depression by encouraging him to use dirty words doing sex finds this rejuvenates them both and leads to them falling in love. “Breath of Fire” invites readers into the world of a married couple who revitalize their marriage and soul happiness through tantric breathing.  

Red Hot Resources, found at the back of the book, offers a list of items to promote the most satisfying tantric experience possible and in every way, distills the sacred from what is often now vilified as obscene.

If Red Hot Tantra’s suggestions are as solid as they sound, this may be the surest way to heaven while remaining in human form.