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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Alice Bunker Stockham was one of the first women doctors in the US. She authored an internationally-known book for lay readers on women's reproductive health before she wrote "Karezza." "Karezza" is a quaint, yet brilliant, book about sacred sexuality. It points to a way of making love that protects the harmony in relationships and improves the health of those who practice it. Don't miss the letters from those who experimented with the practice, included in the text.
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