Ancient Sex: How to Tell the Roots from the Imitation
Shall we begin?
You were told to choose a side, monogamy or polyamory. What if the choice was the wrong question?
This book looks at something older, and asks whether it was ever either one. It follows the old teachings of Tantra and the Kama Sutra back toward their roots, from the rivers of Mesopotamia onward. It shows you how to tell what is ancient from what is imitation. It keeps the record apart from the teaching, so you always know which is which.
It asks more questions than it answers. The first one is simple. What is this power that moves between two people when the door closes?
Nine parts, from before the written record to the questions still open.
About thirty chapters in nine parts.
- Part 1
The Question
- Part 2
Before the Written Record
- Part 3
Sumer
- Part 4
The Nile and its neighbors
- Part 5
The Eastern streams
- Part 6
The wider world
- Part 7
What the traditions share
- Part 8
BlissWave, the practice
- Part 9
The Open Questions
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Six parts, in the same order each time.
- 1
Story
A story to open every chapter.
- 2
Record
What the sources actually say.
- 3
Debate
Where scholars disagree, the book says how.
- 4
Teaching
What the author believes, always labeled as his.
- 5
Practice
A practice you can try, built on four levels: Intimacy, Arousal, Orgasm and Ecstasy.
- 6
Open Questions
Honest books leave some.
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The author dictates and decides. An assistant helps organize, check, and shape the text, the way a secretary and an editor once did. Every quotation and citation is checked against a primary source before it prints. Anything that cannot be checked is marked as unchecked.
Print, digital, and audio editions are planned.
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