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Dr. [[Arnold Krumm-Heller]] established the [[Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua]] (FRA), a Rosicrucian school in Germany with branches in South America, having the following formula of sexual conduct: "Immissio Membri Virile In Vaginae Sine Ejaculatio Seminis" (Introduce the penis in the vagina without ejaculating the semen). [[Samael Aun Weor]] experimented with that formula and developed the doctrine of ''[[The Perfect Matrimony]]''.
Dr. [[Arnold Krumm-Heller]] established the [[Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua]] (FRA), a Rosicrucian school in Germany with branches in South America, having the following formula of sexual conduct: "Immissio Membri Virile In Vaginae Sine Ejaculatio Seminis" (Introduce the penis in the vagina without ejaculating the semen). [[Samael Aun Weor]] experimented with that formula and developed the doctrine of ''[[The Perfect Matrimony]]''.


== Persecutions ==
== Controversy ==




No man is a prophet in his native land; this time it would be a woman, Dr. Alice Stockham, who was taken to court and forced to give up teaching the practice of Karezza in the United States of America. Like many other of the sex reformers, Stockham was arrested by [[Anthony Comstock]].<ref>John P. Deveney ''Paschal B. Randolph'', p. 393, SUNY Press, 1997 ISBN 978-0791431191</ref> Comstock was a fanatical activist against birth control dissemination and he unleashed a reign of terror that would last forty years. Comstock was backed by Morris Ketchum Jessup an American millionaire philanthropist who was a founder of the New York [[YMCA]] and the Museum of Natural History. Together, they established the New York Committee for the Suppression of Vice which attracted many prominent, powerful and wealthy Americans including [[J. P. Morgan]]. Comstock lobbied in Congress for a stronger federal antiobscenity and antireproductive control law. Within months, Congress would sign the [[Comstock Act]] into law and Comstock would be appointed special agent of the U. S. Post Office to enforce the law. He jailed for long terms a variety of spiritual marriage reformers including [[Paschal Beverly Randolph]] who had been a personal friend of [[Abraham Lincoln]].<ref>Paschal B. Randolph ''Ravalette: The Rosicrucian's Story'', p. 64, Kessinger Publishing, 2005 ISBN 978-0766191600</ref> [[Ida Craddock]] committed suicide after being repeatedly jailed for allegedly peddling pornography. <ref>Vern L. Bullough ''Encyclopedia of Birth Control'', pp. 76-9, ABC-CLIO, 2001 ISBN 978-1576071816 </ref> The Oneida Community was attacked in the press and Noyes was forced to flee to Canada June 22, 1879. From there, he advised others to follow St. Paul's plan of either marriage or celibacy and to obey the commandments against adultery and fornication.<ref>Patricia Gutek ''Visiting Utopian Communities'', p. 137, [[University of South Carolina Press]], 1998 ISBN 978-1570032103</ref>
Dr. Alice Stockham, who was taken to court and forced to give up teaching the practice of Karezza in the United States of America. Like many other of the sex reformers, Stockham was arrested by [[Anthony Comstock]].<ref>John P. Deveney ''Paschal B. Randolph'', p. 393, SUNY Press, 1997 ISBN 978-0791431191</ref> Comstock was a fanatical activist against birth control dissemination and he unleashed a reign of terror that would last forty years. Comstock was backed by Morris Ketchum Jessup an American millionaire philanthropist who was a founder of the New York [[YMCA]] and the Museum of Natural History. Together, they established the New York Committee for the Suppression of Vice which attracted many prominent, powerful and wealthy Americans including [[J. P. Morgan]]. Comstock lobbied in Congress for a stronger federal antiobscenity and antireproductive control law. Within months, Congress would sign the [[Comstock Act]] into law and Comstock would be appointed special agent of the U. S. Post Office to enforce the law. He jailed for long terms a variety of spiritual marriage reformers including [[Paschal Beverly Randolph]] who had been a personal friend of [[Abraham Lincoln]].<ref>Paschal B. Randolph ''Ravalette: The Rosicrucian's Story'', p. 64, Kessinger Publishing, 2005 ISBN 978-0766191600</ref> [[Ida Craddock]] committed suicide after being repeatedly jailed for allegedly peddling pornography. <ref>Vern L. Bullough ''Encyclopedia of Birth Control'', pp. 76-9, ABC-CLIO, 2001 ISBN 978-1576071816 </ref> The Oneida Community was attacked in the press and Noyes was forced to flee to Canada June 22, 1879. From there, he advised others to follow St. Paul's plan of either marriage or celibacy and to obey the commandments against adultery and fornication.<ref>Patricia Gutek ''Visiting Utopian Communities'', p. 137, [[University of South Carolina Press]], 1998 ISBN 978-1570032103</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 03:47, 19 January 2010

Kama Sutra

Coitus reservatus (coitus, "sexual intercourse, union" + reservatus, "reserved, saved")[1] , is commonly thought of as a form of sexual intercourse in which the man does not attempt to ejaculate within his partner, but instead attempts to remain at the plateau phase of intercourse for as long as possible avoiding the orgasm and seminal emission (however, as in prepuberty, a male may achieve orgasm without any seminal emission, known as a dry orgasm).[2] Another term used for this kind of relationship is the word karezza.

The word Karezza is generally believed to be derived from the Italian word "carézza" meaning "caress." However, Alan W. Watts believed it was a Persian word.[3] Alice Bunker Stockham coined the word karezza and is akin to maithuna in Buddhist Tantra and Sahaja in Hindu Yoga.[4]

The Rosicrucians have used "coitus reservatus" or "karezza" as an esoteric practice. The practice of "coitus reservatus" with vestal virgins during the first four centuries of Christianity descended as a tradition to the Cathars.

The Practice of Karezza

Stockham writes, "... Karezza signifies 'to express affection in both words and action,' and while it fittingly denotes the union that is the outcome of deepest human afection, love's consummation, it is used technically throughout this work to designate a controlled sexual union." So that in practice, it is more than just self-control; it is actually mutual control where the male helps the female and viceversa. This is the key to overcome many difficulties encountered in trying to control sexual expression on an individual basis.[5] Stockham contribution was to apply this same philosophy of orgasm control to women as much as to men. A form of birth control, the technique also prolongs sexual pleasure to the point of achieving mystical ecstasy, as explained by J. William Lloyd, a practitioner of Karezza, whose own experience of Cosmic Consciousness appears in Cosmic Consciousness, a book written by the American psychiatrist Richard M. Bucke, a friend of the American poet Walt Whitman.[6] The goal of this practice is to enable the man and the woman, husband and wife, to actually separate orgasm and ejaculation from sexual intercourse, being able to enjoy the pleasure of heterosexual intercourse without having to experience orgasm or seminal ejaculation.

Some would have the principles of karezza applied to masturbation, whereby a person attempts to delay orgasm as long as possible to prolong pleasure in a process known as "orgasmic brinkmanship", "surfing", or "edging" but ideally it would not be "karezza'. This precludes masturbation as an exclusive act, an end in itself, from the heterosexual practice of "karezza".[7] Karezza's cornerstone is a married heterosexual couple willing to undergo the discipline of engaging in sexual intercourse without having to experience orgasm and seminal ejaculation. In Latin literature, this is known as coitus sine ejaculatione seminis.[8]

One purpose of karezza is the maintenance, and indeed, intensification of desire and enjoyment of sexual pleasure within the context of relationships. According to Alice Stockham, a 19th Century author, it takes from two weeks to a month for the body to recover from ejaculation ..."Unless procreation is desired, let the final propagative orgasm be entirely avoided".[9] Stockham's advocacy was that the 'honeymoon period' of a relationship could be maintained in perpetuity by limiting the frequency of ejaculation or preferably avoiding them entirely. [10]

Coitus reservatus

There is a slight difference between Karezza and coitus reservatus. Ideally, karezza is best suited for established couples. Coitus reservatus, on the other hand, is suited for practically anyone but ideally, for consenting adults; in this practice, unlike karezza's the woman can and does enjoy a prolonged orgasm while the man is able to demonstrate at will an unequalled mode of self-control.[11]

There are some who believe there are negative effects to the practice as follows: coitus reservatus is not a reliable form of preventing a sexually transmitted infection, as the penis leaks pre-ejaculate, which may contain all of the same infectious viral particles and bacteria as the actual semen. Beyond that, it is also unreliable for contraception, even if ejaculation is successfully avoided, because pre-ejaculate may contain sperm. However, no studies have been found to show that sperm is present in the pre-ejaculate fluid.[12] The method is also unreliable because of the difficulty of controlling ejaculation beyond the point of no return in over-reaching the orgasm. The couples should therefore exercise preventive control in how far they are willing to go. Another difficulty of this method as a form of birth-control is that if the man begins to orgasm (before ejaculation proper begins), the muscles can tense tightly in the lower body, such as legs and buttocks, causing the removal of the penis to be difficult. This could cause some ejaculate to enter his partner. Pregnancy could then result. Regardless, some would argue that the political aspect of birth control remains the moral property of women.[13]

Some views on coitus reservatus

English novelist Aldous Huxley, in his last novel Island wrote that Maithuna, the Yoga of Love is... "the same as what Roman Catholicism means by coitus reservatus.[14] Getting to the point by discussing coitus reservatus, Alan W. Watts in Nature, Man and Woman notes: "...I would like to see someone make a case for the idea that the Apostles really did hand down an inner tradition to the Church, and that through all these centuries the Church has managed to guard it from the public eye. If so, it has remained far more secret and "esoteric" than in any of the other great spiritual traditions of the world, so much so that its existence is highly doubtful...[15] The Welsh writer Norman Lewis, in his celebrated account of life in Naples in 1944, claimed that San Rocco was the patron saint of coitus reservatus: "I recommended him to drink -- as the locals did -- marsala with the yolk of eggs stirred into it, and to wear a medal of San Rocco, patron of coitus reservatus, which could be had in any religious-supplies shop".[16] Coitus reservatus was admittedly part of the teachings of the Catholic church regarding sexual intercourse and was generally a permitted form of intercourse but was subject to the same arguments as coitus interruptus.[17]

The psychologist Havelock Ellis writes: "Coitus Reservatus, - in which intercourse is maintained even for very long periods, during which the woman may have orgasm several times while the man succeeds in holding back orgasm, - so far from being injurious to the woman, is probably the form of coitus which gives her the maximum gratification and relief".[18]

The Oneida Community, founded in the nineteenth century by John Humphrey Noyes experimented with coitus reservatus which was then called male continence in a religiously Christian communist environment. The experiment lasted for about a quarter of a century and then Noyes went on to create Oneida silverware and establish the Oneida Silver Co. that grew into Oneida Limited.[19]

The idea of "coitus reservatus" is not unknown in Islam. Tradition tells how the Prophet Mohammed practiced it to preserve his vitality.[20]

Notes on the sublimation of sexual energy

In his study of Leonardo da Vinci, Sigmund Freud writes: "Observation of daily life shows that most persons have the capacity to direct a very tangible part of their sexual motive powers to their professional or business activities. The sexual impulse is particularly suited to yield such contributions because it is endowed with the capacity of sublimation, i. e. it has the power to exchange its nearest aim for others of higher value which are not sexual."[21]

According to B. Z. Goldberg, writing in The Sacred Fire, for the Jews "...the intentional loss of semen is an unpardonable sin." [22]

In his Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill dedicates an entire chapter to the subject of "the mystery of Sex Transmutation" and considers it important enough to name it: "the tenth step toward riches".[23]

Prince Aly Khan, playboy son of the Agha Khan, married Rita Hayworth and was nicknamed "Santa Claus", perhaps by Orson Welles, because it is said he only came once a year.[24]

According to Walter Russell, "...the creative urge is in truth the sex urge and can either become the greatest force for good or the greatest deterrent in life."[25]

P. D. Ouspensky writes that G. I. Gurdjieff said that "...having begun, transmutation takes the whole of sexual energy and puts an end to normal sexual life or the outward expenditure of sex energy."[26]

The Rosicrucians

The AMORC Rosicrucians declare openly that they do not engage in sexual practices of an occult nature. This has been so since their First Imperator H. Spencer Lewis, Ph. D. made it public knowledge.[27] Their rival organization Fraternitas Rosae Crucis led by Dr. R. Swinburne Clymer engages in sexual practices for the sake of race regeneration. Dr. Clymer is completely opposed to the practice of Karezza or coitus reservatus and advocates instead a form of sex intercourse in which the couple experiences the orgasm at the same time[28] Imperator Lewis declares the FUDOSI acknowledged AMORC as the genuine Rosicrucian representative in North America. However, the Secretary of the FUDOSI, a French Sexologist, heartily approves the practice of Karezza as an American import to establish harmony in the family as well as in the world by preventing the waste and misuse of sex energy.[29]

Dr. Arnold Krumm-Heller established the Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua (FRA), a Rosicrucian school in Germany with branches in South America, having the following formula of sexual conduct: "Immissio Membri Virile In Vaginae Sine Ejaculatio Seminis" (Introduce the penis in the vagina without ejaculating the semen). Samael Aun Weor experimented with that formula and developed the doctrine of The Perfect Matrimony.

Controversy

Dr. Alice Stockham, who was taken to court and forced to give up teaching the practice of Karezza in the United States of America. Like many other of the sex reformers, Stockham was arrested by Anthony Comstock.[30] Comstock was a fanatical activist against birth control dissemination and he unleashed a reign of terror that would last forty years. Comstock was backed by Morris Ketchum Jessup an American millionaire philanthropist who was a founder of the New York YMCA and the Museum of Natural History. Together, they established the New York Committee for the Suppression of Vice which attracted many prominent, powerful and wealthy Americans including J. P. Morgan. Comstock lobbied in Congress for a stronger federal antiobscenity and antireproductive control law. Within months, Congress would sign the Comstock Act into law and Comstock would be appointed special agent of the U. S. Post Office to enforce the law. He jailed for long terms a variety of spiritual marriage reformers including Paschal Beverly Randolph who had been a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln.[31] Ida Craddock committed suicide after being repeatedly jailed for allegedly peddling pornography. [32] The Oneida Community was attacked in the press and Noyes was forced to flee to Canada June 22, 1879. From there, he advised others to follow St. Paul's plan of either marriage or celibacy and to obey the commandments against adultery and fornication.[33]

See also

References

  • LLoyd, John William, The karezza method, or, Magnetation the art of connubial love, Health Research, 1964, ASIN B0007HUYDY
  • Stockham, Alice B, Karezza Ethics of Marriage, Kessinger Publishing, 2004 ISBN 1417939699
  • Von Urban, Rudolf, M. D., Sex Perfection and Marital Happiness, Dial Press, New York, 1955

Notes

  1. ^ Cassell's Compact Latin Dictionary, Dell Publishing Co. Inc., 1963
  2. ^ Growing up sexually
  3. ^ Watts, Alan W. (1970). Nature, Man and Woman. Random House Inc. Vintage Books Edition. p. 172. LCCN 58-8266.
  4. ^ Coomaraswami, Ananda K. (1957). The Dance of Shiva. New York City: The Noonday Press Inc. p. 124. LCCN 56-12296.
  5. ^ Stockham, Alice B. (1896). Karezza. New York City: R. F. Fenno & Co. p. 22.
  6. ^ Bucke, Richard Maurice, M. D. Cosmic Consciousness, p. 284, Citadel Press, 1961, ISBN 0-8065-0211-8
  7. ^ Ruth Marie Griffith Born Again Bodies, p. 92, University of California Press, 2004 ISBN 978-0520242401
  8. ^ Lloyd, J. William The Karezza Method Health Research, 1964, Mokelumne Hill, California
  9. ^ Stockham, Alice B. Karezza, p. 25, R. F. Fenno & Co., New York City, 1896
  10. ^ Stockham, Alice B., M. D., Karezza, p. 15, R. F. Fenno & Co., New York City, 1896
  11. ^ Dr. Rudolf Von Urban, M. D. Sex Perfection and Marital Happiness, Dial Press, 1949 ISBN B001AA3TWA
  12. ^ Helen Varney Varney's Midwifery, p. 497, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2004 ISBN 978-0763718565
  13. ^ Linda Gordon The Moral Property of Women, p. 31, University of Illinois Press, 2002 ISBN 978-0252027642
  14. ^ Huxley, Aldous Island, Harper & Row, 1962
  15. ^ "Watts, Alan W. Nature, Man and Woman, Ch 7, Pantheon Books Inc. 1958
  16. ^ Norman Lewis Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy, De Capo Press, 2005 ISBN 0786714387
  17. ^ Vern L. Bullough Encyclopedia of Birth Control, p. 75, ABC-CLIO, 2001 ISBN 978-1576071816
  18. ^ Ellis, Havelock Studies in the Psychology of Sex, vol. vi, p. 552, F. A. Davis Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1910, Kindle Edition 2008 ISBN B0016PEMOS
  19. ^ ibid. p. 553
  20. ^ Deveney, John Patrick (1997). Paschal Beverly Randolph: a nineteenth-century Black-American spiritualist, rosicrucian and sex magician. New York: SUNY Press. p. 392. ISBN 0791431191. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: checksum (help)
  21. ^ Sigmund Freud Leonardo da Vinci: A Study in Psychosexuality, ch. I, Random House Inc., W. W. Norton & Co., 1989 ISBN 0393001490
  22. ^ Love in the Synagogue, p. 204
  23. ^ Napoleon Hill Think and Grow Rich, pp. 182-203, Forgotten Books, 1962 ISBN 978-1605069302
  24. ^ Samantha Barbas The First Lady of Hollywood, p. 288, University of California, 2005, ISBN 978-0520242135
  25. ^ Walter Russell Scientific Answer To Sex Promiscuity, p. 40, University of Science and Philosophy, 1968 ASIN B0007EB3XC
  26. ^ P. D. Ouspensky In Search of the Miraculous, p. 256, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1977 ISBN 0-15-644508-5
  27. ^ Lewis, H. Spencer Rosicrucian Manual, p. 5, Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC, 1978
  28. ^ Clymer, R. Swinburne MD, The Mystery of Sex and Race Regeneration, p. 223, The Philosophical Publishing Co., 1950
  29. ^ Marc Lanval, editor, Lumière et Liberté, Organe Officiel de la Ligue Belge de Propagande Héliophile, Octobre-Novembre 1933
  30. ^ John P. Deveney Paschal B. Randolph, p. 393, SUNY Press, 1997 ISBN 978-0791431191
  31. ^ Paschal B. Randolph Ravalette: The Rosicrucian's Story, p. 64, Kessinger Publishing, 2005 ISBN 978-0766191600
  32. ^ Vern L. Bullough Encyclopedia of Birth Control, pp. 76-9, ABC-CLIO, 2001 ISBN 978-1576071816
  33. ^ Patricia Gutek Visiting Utopian Communities, p. 137, University of South Carolina Press, 1998 ISBN 978-1570032103
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