Cultural Conditioning around Sexuality

Integrating sexuality and meditation as related rather than opposing practices is both historically grounded and neurologically coherent. The contemporary tendency to treat sex as shameful is a product of relatively recent cultural and doc…

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Integrating sexuality and meditation as related rather than opposing practices is both historically grounded and neurologically coherent. The contemporary tendency to treat sex as shameful is a product of relatively recent cultural and doctrinal conditioning, not an inherent or universal human attitude. Removing conditioned guilt around sex reveals that ecstatic and explicitly spiritual practices have always shared the same goal.