"Sex is like a signpost in the desert," said one woman. "Every event of any significance in my life is keyed in sexually." Today, I know that sex is a great spiritual teacher, one of the greatest we have. Sexual experience teaches us about emotions, communication, creativity, good and evil, boundaries and their dissolution, love and hate, joy and suffering, birth and death.
Tantra, the Indian art of ecstasy, has long taught that sexual and spiritual energy are related. Many women I talked with confirmed that the Tantric premise is correct: sex can lead to states of ecstasy and to communion with the divine. — Jalaja Bonheim, Aphrodite's Daughters