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    • Better Sex Through Yoga?

    John on January 2, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    From Live Science:

    According to a recent review article in the Dec. 3 issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, sexually unsatisfied women who practiced the Eastern techniques of mindfulness and yoga reported improvements in levels of arousal and desire, as well as better orgasms. In addition, yoga has been found to effectively treat premature ejaculation in men.

    [...]

    Mindfulness — an awareness of the present moment, also a key component in yoga — proved especially beneficial in a study, cited in the article, that asked women to study pennies in detail. The coins were then collected, and each woman was asked to find her original penny. Every woman was successful. “In our experience, (nearly) all women feel that they have a problem with remaining focused; they are highly distractible,” the article states. “However, after this penny exercise, they accept the notion that they can focus their mind if they so choose.” The study then went on to encourage body-awareness exercises, which eventually had a sexual goal.

    I’m not sure how “mindfulness” is a particularly religious concept. Sort of reminds me of that line from Buckaroo Banzai, “Wherever you go, there you are.” But I’m sure the Slice crew would have a very different take on the inherent evil of all this.

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    3 Comments

    1. Daljit

      Main aim of Yoga practice is not to better the sex experience. However, as yoga makes the mind and body fit, sex life can become better.

      January 5, 2009 @ 2:46 pm
    2. Paul Susac

      “Mindfulness” is the name of a specific meditation practice.

      January 7, 2009 @ 9:22 am
    3. Wakefield Tolbert

      Yeah–maybe.

      Cuz if your blood circulation is good, why then, well…..

      But the even better type might be “make up” sex–

      Better sex through telling your wife she was right on an important point you two fought over.

      Patched up with chocolate on the side.

      January 7, 2009 @ 6:12 pm

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