Escaping Saṃsāra Podcast: Sex, bindu and the yogic body 20 August 2024

PodcastEscaping Saṃsāra
TitleSex, bindu and the yogic body as applied to women
Date20 August 2024
Sourcehttps://escaping-samsara.com/

Escaping Saṃsāra Podcast: Sex, bindu and the yogic body as applied to women

Thanks to Nathan Thompson for interviewing me for his podcast series on sex, brahmacharya and semen retention. So of course we talked about menses and menstruation.
Listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts.
Show notes
Dhand, A. (2008) Woman as Fire, Woman as Sage: Sexual Ideology in the Mahabharata. Ithaca: SUNY Press.
Hatley, S. (2016) Erotic asceticism: the razor’s edge observance (asidhārāvrata) and the early history of tantric coital ritual., Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies, 79 (2) pp.329–345.
Langenberg, A. P. (2015) Sex and Sexuality in Buddhism: A Tetralemma, Religion Compass, 9 (9) pp.277–286. DOI: 10.1111/rec3.12162
Mallinson, J. (2018) Yoga and Sex: What is the Purpose of Vajrolīmudrā?, Yoga in Transformation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, pp.183–222.
Image credit: Photograph of a sannyāsinī. Oman, John Campbell (1905: 227). The Indian Mystics & Saints of India.