The science of stress, attraction, bonding, trauma, dis-ease, safety, joy, performance, drive and regulation through hormones is known and accepted.
Hormones and the nervous system run the system.
Hormones get measured and medicated.
Nervous system response is mapped.
Behavioural patterns are predictable.
Science knows
the biology,
the chemistry,
the body.
Therapy, somatic practice and clinical healing work understand the science.
They understand hormones.
They understand triggers.
Touch regulates.
Breath regulates.
Movement regulates.
When I travel with him,
often I arrange massages for us.
He remembers Paris, Chicago, the Maldives.
Always stopping a breath away from touching his cock and balls.
Always stopping a breath away from deep regulation.
Always stopping a breath away from what I tolerate.
Mainstream massage or therapy cannot touch eros and stay in business.
Not structurally.
Not directly.
Not without crossing boundaries around sexuality, power, dominance, surrender and control.
Therapy stops at the edge.
Tantric and ritual traditions cross that edge.
Tantra understands polarity.
Tantra understands
arousal regulates.
Surrender regulates.
Containment regulates.
Release regulates.
Power regulates.
Tantra says,
Lotus,
Mandala,
divine,
wands of light,
sacred spaces,
elixir.
Science maps chemistry.
Therapy knows regulation.
Tantra understands eros.
The disciplines remain separate.
We see fragments in mainstream culture:
Dave Lampert, inventor of the Sybian, was a dance instructor.
He built the Sybian to produce orgasm for women,
to unlock women's self expression.
In Black Swan, the artistic director explicitly instructs the protagonist
to masturbate,
to orgasm,
to connect to herself.
References
The research underpinning the biological claims in this essay includes established work in neurobiology, attachment theory, endocrinology, behavioural science, trauma physiology and somatic regulation, including:
- McEwen (stress and cortisol)
- Heinrichs (oxytocin and bonding)
- Porges (polyvagal theory)
- Berridge and Kringelbach (dopamine and motivation)
- Krüger (prolactin and recovery states)
- Levin (sexual arousal and neurochemistry)
- Payne, Levine and Crane-Godreau (somatic trauma regulation)
- Field (touch and cortisol reduction)
- Zaccaro et al. (breath and autonomic regulation)
Placement does not invent new biology.
It reorganises established knowledge into applied relational structure.
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Dave Lampert (1939–2002), inventor of the Sybian, was a dance instructor and developed the Sybian as a device for producing orgasm and facilitating sexual self-stimulation and expression.
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In Black Swan (2010), directed by Darren Aronofsky, Natalie Portman plays Nina Sayers, the lead role, and she won the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 83rd Academy Awards (2011) for her performance. Winona Ryder plays Beth MacIntyre, a former principal dancer whose career decline is shown early in the film. The artistic director of the ballet company is Thomas Leroy, played by Vincent Cassel, who oversees the production of Swan Lake and directs the dancers during rehearsals.
