Beyond Tantra: Healing Through Taoist Sacred Sex

I'm giving this a preemptive 2 stars. Must all self-help books be written in a condescending tone, by people that ‘researched' something online for a week? Do we need supernatural phenomena taking place in order to enjoy tantra? Final question: is it possible the wife started feeling better due to estrogen and iron+vitamin supplementation, without special tantra sex positions making her periods “normal”? Yikes.

“(...) if you had demonstrated a mobile phone to someone in the 15th century, you probably would have been burned at the stake (...), but mobile phones actually work even if most of us do not [understand] the physics involved.” (Of course, ‘sacred' sex energy and the physics of mobile phones work hand-in-hand. Good argument.)

“This is how Western civilization was first introduced to binary arithmetic (...) [which is] also the language of all modern computers. So the computer used to write and produce the book you are reading has been developed as a direct result of Taoist Yin/Yang theory.” — Look, I actually do cherish Daoism as a philosophy (not the religious practice); but this is plain wrong and honesty a ridiculous statement. Binary is there because of the physics of electrical signals. Of course the author would then argue that computers work like tantra and mobile phones...

“It's not a great leap to imagine that if (...) [you visualize] a circuit through your body, you actually create a circuit.” Well, if you say so, why bother with proof...

At this point I'll stop quoting the book. It's too easy to dismantle cherry-picked sections.

I'd like to vouch for ‘vagina' and ‘penis' as great words. I use them whenever they make sense, i.e. where appropriate — instead of ‘pussy' and ‘dick'. I don't think ‘yoni' and ‘jade stalk' make things any better, although I concede they're funnier terms. Vaginas are lovely, and I disagree that the term has negative connotations. If Latin sounds evil to the author(s), I propose they use the Ancient Greek term, which sounds just as whimsical as ‘yoni'. In much the same vein, I also propose the author(s) consider the possibility that Western culture isn't a source of Higher Evil, as they routinely advance. I just think the book would be far more enjoyable without the ‘holier than thou' statements every other paragraph.

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Edit: I'm done, having stopped around 50%. I wish all the best for this couple, but I hope to never again read one of their books. This was a joyless grind.