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http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/29968/1/blind-fingering-dates-are-london-s-latest-crazeOrgasmic meditation classes are taking off in the capital but what exactly do they involve?
Who wouldnt want to get their genitals stroked regularly, pleasurably, and with no strings attached?! writes one orgasmic meditation practitioner, with palpable enthusiasm. (These classes) feel good, with side effects of better communication, more body awareness, less mental chatter, and the secret confidence that comes from knowing Im taking exquisite care of my pussy.
The thought of your vagina being ~tenderly caressed by a total stranger may not seem very relaxing, but for thousands of other young Londoners, this has become a vital weekly practice. Known as OM, OM-ing, or straight-up stroking pussy, orgasmic meditation is sending shockwaves across the capital, giving curious women the chance to improve their empathy, connection and attention through the power of a 15-minute fingering session.
The process is simple. You head to the class, strip off from the waist down, and lie across an unknown, fully-clothed man while he strokes your clitoris. The aim? A shared meditational experience, and the deeply human, deeply felt, and connected experience of orgasm.
(Were shifting) sex out of the dark, under the covers, from the shameful and often consumptive places where it used to be, and into the light, explains practitioner Rachel Tayeb. We take the most powerful impulse, the orgasm impulse, and approach it in an entirely new way. OM offers a practice through which we can harness this impulse that is a deliberate, repeatable method for accessing the orgasm state.
Orgasmic meditation may sound like a weird, and massively uncomfortable, idea, but its success silences any detractors. Since it was discovered by charismatic Californian academic Nicole Daedone, the practice has spread across the world like wildfire, offering a new form of enlightenment to its hundreds of thousands of devotees. Theres been TED talks on the topic, a much-loved YouTube channel and countless converts singing the praises of their new stress-free life. While this may be something to do with the often neglected female orgasm an experience only felt regularly by 57 per cent of women Tayeb insists the craze crashes way past that.
Theres an important distinction thats worth making here, she stresses. We differentiate between climax and the orgasm state. The climax is a few seconds of physical experience, whereas the state of orgasm is continuous more akin to an optimal state of consciousness brought about by the activation of the sex impulse. Its that feeling of being so completely absorbed in an experience that there is no psychic chatter, no being stuck in your head, a falling away of the ego. When this happens, our sense of limitations falls away as well. In the orgasm state, we feel totally present and connected, as if a deeper intuitive sense has awakened.
PJMcK
(22,048 posts)TubbersUK
(1,439 posts)Really?
Beakybird
(3,333 posts)No. Just no.
Botany
(70,581 posts).... supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?
moriah
(8,311 posts)Botany
(70,581 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)moriah
(8,311 posts)... it can't be all bad! And STD risk sounds pretty low.
But I'm perfectly fine with "taking exquisite care of my pussy" myself. So yeah, don't think I would participate.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Pretty sure that medical workers use them for good reasons.
ornotna
(10,807 posts)That is worthless without pictures?
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,591 posts)sarisataka
(18,770 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,591 posts)okieinpain
(9,397 posts)bluepen
(620 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts).
phylny
(8,386 posts)Old Vet
(2,001 posts)sarisataka
(18,770 posts)Orgasmic Meditation Group
safeinOhio
(32,715 posts)csziggy
(34,137 posts)global1
(25,270 posts)if he hears of this - he'll be heading for London and maybe even run for Prime Minister.
mythology
(9,527 posts)It was about his pleasure not theirs. Besides what are the odds somebody that egotistical and sexist could manage to get a woman to orgasm?
phylny
(8,386 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Or worse.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Makes sense UK would be forward with something like this..
Kaleva
(36,341 posts)petronius
(26,603 posts)"Next!"
flamingdem
(39,320 posts)irisblue
(33,022 posts)Bettie
(16,124 posts)because I do not get this at all.
leftstreet
(36,112 posts)I'm thinking, would there be hand sanitizers or gloves, etc
I'm too old for this
Kaleva
(36,341 posts)Nevernose
(13,081 posts)And not what I was expecting. I'm not saying I'm opposed to people queuing up for anonymous finger banging, just that it's not what I'd envisioned the future would be like.
Kaleva
(36,341 posts)MLAA
(17,327 posts)eShirl
(18,503 posts)Nevernose
(13,081 posts)I actually just learned about an obscure piece of Egyptian mythology -- roughly 4000 years old -- in which one of Osiris's many bastard children was nagging him to go vegetarian for his health, so he cursed and punished her.
A drastic oversimplification, but that's the gist of it, and not entirely dissimilar from a discussion I had with my own daughter last week.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,364 posts)Vinca
(50,303 posts)Weekend Warrior
(1,301 posts)voteearlyvoteoften
(1,716 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)way they want, descriptor-wise, but it's sex-for-pay, and its male counterpart is usually considered in plainer and blunter terms.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,591 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,457 posts)JDC
(10,133 posts)Kaleva
(36,341 posts)Response to JDC (Reply #39)
Kaleva This message was self-deleted by its author.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)But to each their own. Never stand in the way of anyone else's happiness, I always say.
trof
(54,256 posts)Corvo Bianco
(1,148 posts)I heard you can do this all on your own, without paying a creepy stranger or local sales tax.
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)Job better pay a lot.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Just admit you want a finger banging and be done with it. No need to pretend this is some advanced form of meditation.
Kaleva
(36,341 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I have no idea what some person that lets strangers touch their genitals have, regardless of the sex of the person allowing the touching of their genitals.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)They're healthy and delicious.