If you're looking for a bedside book filled with gorgeous images and easy, fun rituals to enhance sexual pleasure, buy Tantric Sex. It's easy to read and many of the rituals don't require preparation or even a partner. There are 10 minute Tantric experiences that can you can easily sandwich between other activities during a full day. As a matter of fact, there are special exercises designed just for use on especially hectic days. Some rituals suggest the use of flowers, food, and essential oils but they are an enhancement, not a requirement. Tantric Sex isn't an orthodox Hindu or Buddhist religious text but a fun guide to Tantric practices that translate well into modern American culture.

Introductory topics covered here include: encouraging a healthier body image, creating a sacred space, connecting with yourself, and engaging with the senses. To journey deeper, you may choose to connect with a partner, make love with the divine lover, self-pleasure, massage your partner, or engage in a ritual of mutual oral pleasure. It is easy to be flexible about time when engaging in these rituals. They can expand to fill hours or sweeten a half-hour break between mundane activities.

There are also chakra meditations, breathing and sound exercises, and role-play rituals designed to free the spirit and nurture the body. The heart's connection to the body and mind are always honored as are the individual's boundaries regarding touch and sexual pleasure.

A review wouldn't be complete without further discussion of the images that accompany this text. They are lush, breathtakingly gorgeous, and quite stimulating. Erotic rather than pornographic, they entice the reader to enter the text and try engaging in a ritual, here and now. They are the perfect companion for the text, which draws the reader in gently in an ever-deepening and widening discussion of Tantric sex.