Please join my Tantric yoga sex cult, By Mark Morford
OMG you guys, have you heard? Yoga is all about ... how to put this gently without scaring the children? It's all about your naughty bits. Your genitals. It's true.
It's also all about kinky superstar "gurus," sexual healing and drug-crazed orgies where everyone gets naked, sleeps with married people and prays to weird Hindu gods with ten arms, flaming red tongues and giant stone phalluses that crazed devotees pour lots of milk, butter, honey and flowers all over as regular ritual. I know! What's not to like?
How do I know all this? I just read it in the New York Times. I just read, more specifically, all about the great John Friend/Anusara yoga sex scandal of 2012 -- a very big deal indeed in the yoga world right now, by the way -- as covered, in small part, by the Times' sole yoga-practicing writer in a hundred-mile radius (apparently), a seemingly nice but largely misinformed science guy named William Broad.
Wait, William Broad? Wasn't he the one who wrote that rather obnoxious Times piece back in January titled "How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body," which was an excerpt from his new book "The Science of Yoga" and which nearly every yoga teacher I know thought was irresponsible and lame and rather horribly framed? Why yes, that's the guy. He's a science writer, remember. So, you know, caveat emptor. ...
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