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Monday, November 27, 2006

Body Hacks: [rootlock@mulabandha] man comeharder

filed under: Sex Hacks by Melissa Gira

Don’t hate on Tantra just for its unfortunate aesthetics — or rather, the unfortunate aesthetics of some of the web designers of its Western devotees¹. As a technology of pleasure, Tantra has a lot to offer the determined orgasm engineer. Learning to modify one’s ‘unconscious’ physical responses is fundamental to both sex science and to yoga practice, and to that aim, mula bandha, the root lock, can be explored as a basic body hack suited for bodies of all kinds.

I’ve scoured the Tantric web so you don’t have to, and decided, rather than point to something overly obscure, to instead share this more timely (as in, written this year), in-the-field approach, found in the Indigo Lotus community at Tribe.net:

For those of you saying, “What the Hell is MULA BANDHA?” Mula means root and Bandha means lock. You engage the Mula Bandha by gently lifting up the pelvic floor from the perinium and drawing in and up on the lower abdominals (below the navel). It can be a gentle contraction, more like a sense of awareness and stability in the pelvic muscles or it can be a stronger engagement for heavy lifting or defying gravity. Mula Bandha helps stabilize the pelvis and supports the back, it also gets you in touch with your root and the Kundalini energy that resides at the base of the spine. You can strengthen your Mula Bandha with Kegal exercises. Gaining control of your pelvic muscles not only helps with bladder control, posture and strength, but can help to develop, maintain and control sexual energy.

Translation: Those muscles that spasm and flex when you come? You can train them. You can train them (and likewise, your orgasms) like any other muscle: for strength, flexibility, endurance… and you can even do it under your clothes. You can do it right now.

And as always, for extra credit: a long, thorough, perhaps obsessive (but well-done, really) essay on the Westernization of Tantric technologies and practices and their emergence in pop culture, by Michael Winn, here excerpted on the evolution of Western Tantric ‘gurus’:

Nik Douglas, who met Rajneesh in India before he was famous, told me his main recollection him was of a “nice professor type who wanted me to set him up with intellectual Jewish girls who would fuck”. This suggests an early stage of trying to reconcile his sexual and intellectual identities. Rajneesh was later touted as the “sex guru” by the media because he told his followers to have as much sex as they could possibly tolerate until they no longer desired it. This was his novel application of a traditional Tantric principle of using ordinary desire to obtain enlightenment.

[1]dear internet, please stop putting such terrible pastel photos next to every article on male multiple orgasm, okthxbye. Or I will force you to write your sex guides with a basic Unix shell command file open in another window and run your XXXML past the WC3 for compliance.

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