Yin Yang YES!

The familiar Chinese yin/yang symbol suggests a balance and harmony between the yin (feminine energies) and yang (masculine energies) or between any pair of opposites.  Examples of yin/yang in relationship are following/leading, surrender/control, opening to the mystery/making precise plans, and creativity in the moment/habit.

An important issue in many relationships is who leads, who makes decisions, and who is in charge? Sorting out “who’s the boss” can be quite contentious but does not need to be. Many couples are able to switch the lead back and forth depending on the situation and the respective abilities of the partners. They find the complementarities between their differences rather than competitiveness for power and control.

Time for Exercise: two to four minutes per dance

Properties Required: stereo and selection of slow dance tunes

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My main point is that "tantra", in my view, loses it's refined power and beauty when pushed as a product, or connected with them, like that LuvSeat TM.  That was what got me.  Why represent or portray a uniquely non-fashion-industry set of practices and understandings, a sacred tradition, with furniture etc. that only the leisure-rich could afford or only the consumer-benumbed would buy, luring people with very un-erotic (and standard "pornographic") female figurines dressed in leather boots?  Babaji must be giggling forgivingly out there in the Himalayas.

No, it has nothing to do with strictures and prohibitions, not at all.  I know that like you do.  I've studied and practiced tantra earnestly for 15 years, spending 5 years in India, along with training in martial arts and other practices.  But you have to understand (or state, since obviously you already do know) what kind of freedom IS involved. 

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