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Spiritual Sex: 10 Erotic Commandments
Discover the sacred unity of body and soul when it comes to sex.
by Thomas Moore
People blame philosopher René Descartes for the modern idea that spirit and body are two separate and antagonistic entities. I don’t. I think making this division is an age-old trap. It takes work to see clearly that you need your physical senses to be a spiritual person, and that you need a spiritual acceptance of life’s goodness to be profoundly sensual and sexual.
When you finally get body and spirit together—Renaissance writers said you need to be a person of soul to do this—you will discover greater joy in lovemaking. It makes sense: If you are a whole person made up of body, soul, and spirit,when you make love with only your body, you’re getting only one third of the sex. Spirit and soul like sex, too, and they add immensely to the pleasure.
It disturbs me to meet so many people for whom sex and spirituality are completely unrelated—or exist as opposites. For those who were brought up in a world where religious influence was nonexistent or plain ineffective, it may be a novel idea to consider that sex can be spiritual. Others, like me, grew up in a war between spirituality and sensuality. In my loving Catholic family, the word “sex” could stop conversations and make everyone freeze in embarrassment. I spent my teen years as a monk and seminarian. I didn’t have sex until I was in my late twenties.
Yet, despite all of this neurotic baggage, I came to enjoy sex as much as I am captivated by spirituality.
In the monastery, I was taught to see spirituality as part of religion. But my later studies opened up a much larger notion.
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1 Antinous // Feb 26, 2008 at 10:04 pm
I’m a yoga teacher in the tantric tradition. Sex is pleasurable because it gives us a taste of spiritual ecstasy. Using your body for sex without spirit is like buying a luxury sportscar. You can sit in the driveway enjoying the leather upholstery and great stereo, and there’s nothing wrong with that. But you don’t really enjoy the car until you get it out on the highway and get her up to 120 mph.
2 mo tango // Feb 26, 2008 at 9:03 am
I’m not sure sex has to always be either spiritual or non-spiritual. I think it can be both.
3 Demetrius // Mar 14, 2007 at 9:38 pm
More women consider the sex act as a spiritual experience than men. Is the act itself awaken the spirit on another person?
The more you have sex with this one person, is the spiritual bond strengthened somehow between these couple?
I believe that good satisfying sex needs the participation of the body, soul or life and the spirit. The spirit being the most immaterial part of the soul but is in fact the most important in one’s existence.
Is this spiritual bonding carried for life for fortunate couples having a satisfying sexual relationship for many years. With separation from this person justifies frequent dreams of sex with this particular person a form of spiritual experience.
Still seeking the truth about the true relationship between sex and spirituality.