You may have had that feeling like sex is electric, and it turns out that it actually might be. According to sexual health and wellness expert Shiv Joshi, ‘When we feel aroused, all our nerve endings tingle, the hair on the back of our neck stands up, some people even get goose bumps. Our heart beats faster, our body temperature suddenly shoots up. We feel hot. Our nether parts feel like they are on fire. And when two bodies that are so on fire touch, and move together, the heat turns into an inferno. That is because sex creates energy, lots of it. In fact, sex is energy.’
In her book The Love Keys, Diana Richardson explains, ‘Man represents positive and woman the negative, counterparts of a single phenomenon. Masculine and feminine energies are equal and opposite forces.’ And, if you remember from high school science, when a positive node meets the negative node, electricity happens. Current flows. American individualist anarchist J William Lloyd, author of The Karezza Method, notes, ‘The thrills and pleasures of sex and love were caused by the transmission and reception of currents of “animal magnetism,” or “vital electricity,” which could be conveyed by contact or passes from one human body to another.’
If you’re thinking this is a strange and novel concept, think again. ‘The concept of sex as energy is not new,’ says Joshi. ‘Eastern traditions of Taoism and Tantra that date back several thousand years are based on it. They prescribe sexual techniques for harnessing sexual energy for intimacy, health and longevity. In fact, Tantra means “transformation of energy”. The tantric teachings are based on the circulation and merging of vital energy [chi or prana] between two people.’ In Subtle Energy: Awakening to the Unseen Forces in Our Lives, Dr. William Collinge writes, ‘In the grand scheme of our energetic anatomy, our electromagnetic energy plays a role as well. During intimate contact, the two are transferred and circulated simultaneously. Both kissing and sexual intercourse involve contact of moist mucous membranes, and moisture facilitates particularly strong and efficient electrical conductivity.’
And there’s proof to back up this claim. ‘We have all experienced it,’ notes Joshi. ‘We remember our first kiss. Don’t we? That is because when we kiss a person we are attracted to for the first time, we feel a high-voltage jolt. A jolt that passes through our entire body, nerve endings included. Experiments conducted by American psychiatrist and psychologist, Rudolf von Urban revealed that there is a bio-energetic potential difference between sexually charged males and females which requires about half an hour to be exchanged and reach an equilibrium.’
Joshi continues, ‘In one of Urban’s experiment, a medical doctor and his young Arabian bride caressed each other naked for about an hour without sexual contact in a dark room. The doctor later reported that he saw the body of his wife surrounded by a greenish-blue hazy light. Moving his palm close to her breast a visible and audible electric spark jumped from the breast to the palm. Scientist Baron Karl von Reichenbach too had previously described a similar phenomenon. Sadly, scientists didn’t take him seriously. So for sex to be electric, we need to slowly build the current. And love not lust, is the ingredient that does it. When we touch each other with love, the current resonates not just in the skin, but deep inside the heart.’
So what does this mean for your love life? ‘Logic dictates that when two fully charged bars collide, they will blast,’ says Joshi. ‘But we don’t want our circuits to short. We want the current to flow and light us up. So, for the glow, go slow. Besides we are actually harming ourselves when we rush through intercourse. According to Urban, a short intercourse eliminated the tension in the sexual organs but increased tension in the rest of their bodies. Also, the electric charge is distributed across the body, not just the genitals, which is good. Because that means we can experience pleasure all over. We must open our minds to that thought.’
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