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Coitus reservatus Monday, July 6, 2009

Kama Sutra

Coitus reservatus (coitus, "sexual intercourse, union" + reservatus, "reserved, saved")[1] , is commonly thought of as a form of sexual intercourse in which the man does not attempt to ejaculate within his partner, but instead attempts to remain at the plateau phase of intercourse for as long as possible avoiding the orgasm and seminal emission (however, as in prepuberty, a male may achieve orgasm without any seminal emission, known as a dry orgasm).[2] Another term used for this kind of relationship is the word karezza.

Alice Bunker Stockham's contribution

Importantly, Dr. Alice Bunker Stockham's contribution was to apply this same philosophy to women as much as to men. It may be construed as a form of birth control but it is really a way of prolonging sexual pleasure to the point of achieving mystical ecstasis, as explained by J. William Lloyd, a practitioner of Karezza, whose own experience of Cosmic Consciousness appears in the magnum opus Cosmic Consciousness by the American psychiatrist Richard M. Bucke M. D., an intimate friend of the American poet Walt Whitman.[3] In fact, the goal of this practice is to enable the man to actually separate orgasm from ejaculation, being able to experience one without the other. Some would even go as far as turning it into a Gay Science.[4]

Prerequisites

Presumably, the principles of karezza also apply to masturbation, whereby a man attempts to delay his ejaculation as long as possible to prolong pleasure in a process known as "orgasmic brinkmanship" or "edging." This precludes masturbation as an exclusive act, an end in itself.[5] Its cornerstone is a couple who are willing to undergo the discipline of coitus sine ejaculatio seminis.[6] The primary purpose of karezza is the maintenance, and indeed, intensification of desire and enjoyment of sexual pleasure within the context of long-term relationships. According to Stockham, it takes from two weeks to a month for the body to recover from ejaculation ..."Unless procreation is desired, let the final propagative orgasm be entirely avoided".[7] If ejaculation is experienced more frequently, the effect is to 'drain the basin' before it has been replenished. This, in turn, induces feelings of irritation and rejection of the lover, as the body seeks to prevent further ejaculation. However, and arguably especially in modern Western culture where 'more is better', people often pursue orgasms, and therefore, ejaculation as a way of trying to overcome those feelings, thus compounding the problem. The result is that over time (reportedly within two to four years), the 'honeymoon of desire' is over, leading to substantial change in the nature of the relationship. Stockham's advocacy was that this same 'honeymoon period' could be maintained in perpetuity by limiting the frequency of ejaculation or preferably avoiding it entirely. Stockham writes: "Man, too, expresses creative life in many ways besides that of parenthood".[8] Once lovemaking is no longer undertaken as a means to orgasm, Stockham suggested, the nature and purpose of lovemaking changes dramatically, being focused on communication and physical communion. She writes, "The time and frequency of Karezza can be governed by no certain law. Experience, however, has proven that is far more satisfactory to have at least an interval of two to four weeks, and may find that even three or four months afford greater impetus to power and growth as well as more personal satisfaction; during the interval the thousand and one lover-like attentions give reciprocal delight, and are an anticipating prophecy of the ultimate union."[9]

Coitus reservatus

There is a slight difference between Karezza and coitus reservatus. Ideally, karezza is best suited for established couples. Coitus reservatus, on the other hand, is suited for practically anyone but ideally, for consenting adults; in this practice, unlike karezza's the woman can and does enjoy a prolonged orgasm while the man is able to demonstrate at will an unequalled mode of self-control.[10]

There are some who believe there are negative effects to the practice as follows: coitus reservatus is not a reliable form of preventing a sexually transmitted infection, as the penis leaks pre-ejaculate, which may contain all of the same infectious viral particles and bacteria as the actual semen. Beyond that, it is also unreliable for contraception, even if ejaculation is successfully avoided, because pre-ejaculate may contain sperm. However, no studies have been found to show that sperm is present in the pre-ejaculate fluid.[11] The method is also unreliable because of the difficulty of controlling ejaculation beyond the point of no return in over-reaching the orgasm. The couples should therefore exercise preventive control in how far they are willing to go. Another difficulty of this method as a form of birth-control is that if the man begins to orgasm (before ejaculation proper begins), the muscles can tense tightly in the lower body, such as legs and buttocks, causing the removal of the penis to be difficult. This could cause some ejaculate to enter his partner. Pregnancy could then result. Regardless, some would argue that the political aspect of birth control remains the moral property of women.[12]

English novelist Aldous Huxley, in his last novel Island wrote that Maithuna, the Yoga of Love is... "the same as what Roman Catholicism means by coitus reservatus.[13] Getting to the point by discussing coitus reservatus, Alan W. Watts in Nature, Man and Woman notes: "...I would like to see someone make a case for the idea that the Apostles really did hand down an inner tradition to the Church, and that through all these centuries the Church has managed to guard it from the public eye. If so, it has remained far more secret and "esoteric" than in any of the other great spiritual traditions of the world, so much so that its existence is highly doubtful...[14] The Welsh writer Norman Lewis, in his celebrated account of life in Naples in 1944, claimed that San Rocco was the patron saint of coitus reservatus: "I recommended him to drink -- as the locals did -- marsala with the yolk of eggs stirred into it, and to wear a medal of San Rocco, patron of coitus reservatus, which could be had in any religious-supplies shop".[15] On the other hand, one would expect someone like Pope Pius XII to stand firm against any form of sex act other than the one conducive to procreation in holy matrimony. He says, "Our Predecessor, Pius XI, of happy memory, in his Encyclical Casti Connubii, of December 31, 1930, once again solemnly proclaimed the fundamental law of the conjugal act and conjugal relations: that every attempt of either husband or wife in the performance of the conjugal act or in the development of its natural consequences which aims at depriving it of its inherent force and hinders the procreation of new life is immoral; and that no "indication" or need can convert an act which is intrinsically immoral into a moral and lawful one. The precept is in full force today, as it was in the past, and so it will be in the future also, and always, because it is not a simple human whim, but the expression of a natural and divine law."[16] However, coitus reservatus was admittedly part of the teachings of the Catholic church regarding sexual intercourse and was generally a permitted form of intercourse but was subject to the same arguments as coitus interruptus.[17]

The famous psychologist Havelock Ellis writes: "Coitus Reservatus, - in which intercourse is maintained even for very long periods, during which the woman may have orgasm several times while the man succeeds in holding back orgasm, - so far from being injurious to the woman, is probably the form of coitus which gives her the maximum gratification and relief".[18]

The Oneida Community, founded in the nineteenth century by John Humphrey Noyes experimented with coitus reservatus which was then called male continence in a religiously Christian communist environment. The experiment lasted for about a quarter of a century and then Noyes went on to create Oneida silverware and establish the Oneida Silver Co. that grew into Oneida Limited.[19]

Some notes on the sublimation of sexual energy

In his study of Leonardo da Vinci, Sigmund Freud writes: "Observation of daily life shows that most persons have the capacity to direct a very tangible part of their sexual motive powers to their professional or business activities. The sexual impulse is particularly suited to yield such contributions because it is endowed with the capacity of sublimation, i. e. it has the power to exchange its nearest aim for others of higher value which are not sexual."[20]

According to B. Z. Goldberg, writing in The Sacred Fire, for the Jews "...the intentional loss of semen is an unpardonable sin." [21]

In his magnum opus Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill dedicates an entire chapter to the subject of "the mystery of Sex Transmutation" and considers it important enough to name it: "the tenth step toward riches".[22]

Prince Aly Khan, playboy son of the Agha Khan, married Rita Hayworth and was nicknamed "Santa Claus", perhaps by Orson Welles, because he only came once a year.[23]

Henry Miller accused D. H. Lawrence of building "a Taj Mahal around something as simple as a good fuck."[24]

According to Walter Russell, "...the creative urge is in truth the sex urge and can either become the greatest force for good or the greatest deterrent in life."[25]

P. D. Ouspensky writes that G. I. Gurdjieff said that "...having begun, transmutation takes the whole of sexual energy and puts an end to normal sexual life or the outward expenditure of sex energy."[26]

Karezza

The word 'karezza' is generally believed to be derived from the Italian word carézza meaning "caress"; however, Alan W. Watts believes it is a Persian word.[27] The term "karezza" was coined by the physician Alice Bunker Stockham and is akin to maithuna in Buddhist Tantra and Sahaja in Hindu Yoga. [28] Stockham writes in Karezza, p. 22, "Karezza signifies 'to express affection in both words and action,' and while it fittingly denotes the union that is the outcome of deepest human affection, love's consummation, it is used technically throughout this work to designate a controlled sexual union". So that in practice, it is more than just self-control; it is actually mutual-control where the male helps the female and viceversa. This is a key to overcome many difficulties in trying to control sexual expression on an individual basis.[29]

The Rosicrucians

The AMORC Rosicrucians declare openly that they do not engage in sexual practices of an occult nature. This has been so since their First Imperator H. Spencer Lewis, Ph. D. made it public knowledge.[30] Their rival organization Fraternitas Rosae Crucis led by Dr. R. Swinburne Clymer engages in sexual practices for the sake of race regeneration. Dr. Clymer is completely opposed to the practice of Karezza or coitus reservatus and advocates instead a form of sex intercourse in which the couple experiences the orgasm at the same time[31] Imperator Lewis declares the FUDOSI acknowledged AMORC as the genuine Rosicrucian representative in North America. However, the Secretary of the FUDOSI, a French Sexologist, heartily approves the practice of Karezza as an American import to establish harmony in the family as well as in the world by preventing the waste and misuse of sex energy.[32]

No man is a prophet in his native land; this time it would be a woman, Dr. Alice Stockham, to be taken to court and forced to give up teaching the practice of Karezza in the United States of America. Like many other of the sex reformers, Stockham was arrested by Anthony Comstock.[33] Comstock was a fanatical activist against birth control dissemination and he unleashed a reign of terror that would last forty years. Comstock was backed by Morris Ketchum Jessup an American millionaire philanthropist who was a founder of the New York YMCA and the Museum of Natural History. Together, they established the New York Committee for the Suppression of Vice which attracted many prominent, powerful and wealthy Americans including J. P. Morgan. Comstock lobbied in Congress for a stronger federal antiobscenity and antireproductive control law. Within months, Congress would sign the Comstock Act into law and Comstock would be appointed special agent of the U. S. Post Office to enforce the law. He jailed for long terms a variety of spiritual marriage reformers including Paschal Beverly Randolph who had been a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln.[34] Ida Craddock committed suicide after being repeatedly jailed for allegedly peddling pornography. [35] The Oneida Community was attacked in the press and Noyes was forced to flee to Canada June 22, 1879. From there, he advised others to follow St. Paul's plan of either marriage or celibacy and to obey the commandments against adultery and fornication.[36]

Dr. Arnold Krumm-Heller established the Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua (FRA) a Rosicrucian school in Germany with branches in South America having the following formula of sexual conduct: Immissio Membri Virile in Vaginae sine ejaculatio seminis. This he asserts is most conducive to the economic success and prosperity of the members. [37]

Samael Aun Weor learned this formula and applied it in the context of The Perfect Matrimony.

See also

References

  • LLoyd, John William, The karezza method, or, Magnetation the art of connubial love, Health Research, 1964, ASIN B0007HUYDY
  • Stockham, Alice B, Karezza Ethics of Marriage, Kessinger Publishing, 2004 ISBN 1417939699
  • Von Urban, Rudolf, M. D., Sex Perfection and Marital Happiness, Dial Press, New York, 1955

In pop culture:

Notes

  1. ^ Cassell's Compact Latin Dictionary, Dell Publishing Co. Inc., 1963
  2. ^ Growing up sexually
  3. ^ Bucke, Richard Maurice, M. D. Cosmic Consciousness, p. 284, Citadel Press, 1961, ISBN 0-8065-0211-8
  4. ^ Daniel A. Helminiak Sex and the Sacred, p. 36, Haworth Press, 2006 ISBN 978-1560233428
  5. ^ Ruth Marie Griffith Born Again Bodies, p. 92, University of California Press, 2004 ISBN 978-0520242401
  6. ^ Lloyd, J. William The Karezza Method Health Research, 1964, Mokelumne Hill, California
  7. ^ Stockham, Alice B. Karezza, p. 25, R. F. Fenno & Co., New York City, 1896
  8. ^ Stockham, Alice B., M. D., Karezza, p. 15, R. F. Fenno & Co., New York City, 1896
  9. ^ Stockham, Alice B., M. D., Karezza, p. 29, R. F. Fenno & Co., New York City, 1896
  10. ^ Dr. Rudolf Von Urban, M. D. Sex Perfection and Marital Happiness, Dial Press, 1949 ISBN B001AA3TWA
  11. ^ Helen Varney Varney's Midwifery, p. 497, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2004 ISBN 978-0763718565
  12. ^ Linda Gordon The Moral Property of Women, p. 31, University of Illinois Press, 2002 ISBN 978-0252027642
  13. ^ Huxley, Aldous Island, Harper & Row, 1962
  14. ^ "Watts, Alan W. Nature, Man and Woman, Ch 7, Pantheon Books Inc. 1958
  15. ^ Norman Lewis Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy, De Capo Press, 2005 ISBN 0786714387
  16. ^ Pope Pius XII The Conjugal Act
  17. ^ Vern L. Bullough Encyclopedia of Birth Control, p. 75, ABC-CLIO, 2001 ISBN 978-1576071816
  18. ^ Ellis, Havelock Studies in the Psychology of Sex, vol. vi, p. 552, F. A. Davis Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1910, Kindle Edition 2008 ISBN B0016PEMOS
  19. ^ ibid. p. 553
  20. ^ Sigmund Freud Leonardo da Vinci: A Study in Psychosexuality, ch. I, Random House Inc., W. W. Norton & Co., 1989 ISBN 0393001490
  21. ^ Love in the Synagogue, p. 204
  22. ^ Napoleon Hill Think and Grow Rich, pp. 182-203, Forgotten Books, 1962 ISBN 978-1605069302
  23. ^ Samantha Barbas The First Lady of Hollywood, p. 288, University of California, 2005, ISBN 978-0520242135
  24. ^ Omar Garrison Tantra: the Yoga of Sex, p. 208, Causeway Books, 1964 ISBN 0-88356-015-1
  25. ^ Walter Russell Scientific Answer To Sex Promiscuity, p. 40, University of Science and Philosophy, 1968 ASIN B0007EB3XC
  26. ^ P. D. Ouspensky In Search of the Miraculous, p. 256, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1977 ISBN 0-15-644508-5
  27. ^ Watts, Alan W. Nature, Man and Woman, p. 172, Pantheon Books Inc., 1958
  28. ^ Coomaraswami, Ananda K. The Dance of Shiva, p. 124, The Noonday Press Inc., 1957
  29. ^ Weor, Samael Aun The Perfect Matrimony, Glorian Publishing, 2001, ISBN 0-9742755-0-6
  30. ^ Lewis, H. Spencer Rosicrucian Manual, p. 5, Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC, 1978
  31. ^ Clymer, R. Swinburne MD, The Mystery of Sex and Race Regeneration, p. 223, The Philosophical Publishing Co., 1950
  32. ^ Marc Lanval, editor, Lumière et Liberté, Organe Officiel de la Ligue Belge de Propagande Héliophile, Octobre-Novembre 1933
  33. ^ John P. Deveney Paschal B. Randolph, p. 393, SUNY Press, 1997 ISBN 978-0791431191
  34. ^ Paschal B. Randolph Ravalette: The Rosicrucian's Story, p. 64, Kessinger Publishing, 2005 ISBN 978-0766191600
  35. ^ Vern L. Bullough Encyclopedia of Birth Control, pp. 76-9, ABC-CLIO, 2001 ISBN 978-1576071816
  36. ^ Patricia Gutek Visiting Utopian Communities, p. 137, University of South Carolina Press, 1998 ISBN 978-1570032103
  37. ^ Weor, Samael Aun The Perfect Marriage, ch. ix, Ecclesiae Gnosticae 1979

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