The Encyclopedia of Sacred Sexuality: From Aphrodisiacs and Ecstasy to Yoni Worship and Zap-Lam Yoga

Revised and Expanded Edition of The Encyclopedia of Erotic Wisdom

This comprehensive reference book, lavishly illustrated and extensively cross-referenced, encompasses all eras and cultures in exploring the meaning of sexuality.

• Updated and expanded with over 150 new or revised entries, along with a vast array of new color illustrations

• Contains the most recent scientific knowledge of the brain, mind, and body as it relates to the erotic and sexual

• An exceptional reference — including Internet resources — that explores the farthest reaches of this fascinating subject

• Over 25,000 copies of the first edition sold

This fully updated and expanded edition of The Encyclopedia of Erotic Wisdom contains more than 1,200 entries — 150 of which are either new additions or were extensively revised for this edition — and a vast array of new illustrations, many in full color, from the author's recent travels to the Far East. The encyclopedia explains how to integrate body and mind, love and sexuality, and spiritual exercise and inner alchemical techniques in the practice of sacred sexuality. It also contains the most recent scientific knowledge of the brain, mind, and body as it relates to the erotic and sexual. Extensive cross references, quotations from sacred erotic scriptures, Internet resources, and 28 indexes to related topics within the book take the reader on an odyssey from almost any point of departure to the farthest reaches of this fascinating subject.

• Author
• Rufus C. Camphausen

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 320

• Publisher
• Inner Traditions

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780892817191

• Genres
• sexuality, reference, philosophy, lgbt, mythology

• Release date
• 1999