Charm School: Dating Experts, Abject Masculinity, and the Immaterial Labors of Seduction

Orgasmic Meditation

"So, women have been told their whole lives that their appetites are wrong. Have you noticed around here that women are actually doing the work to get right with their appetites for all these things—for sex, intimacy, all these things—within these walls. This is like a wildlife preserve of turned-on women. In here, tigers no longer have to pretend to be docile—de-fanged, like the zoo, where they get conditioned out of their normal reality, their biology. [Then he references a comedy skit about tigers ‘gone tiger’ in the zoo.]So, women have been told to short-order on their desire, divided by half. And, they were taught that their power is in saying ‘no’" 

"I think desire is nature. I don’t think nature is very concerned with the form that desire takes, as long as you’re following the true thing that you’re feeling. And both [the desire to party and ‘open up my sex as much as possible, and later the desire to settle down in a monogamous relationship] were true at different times. So I know for a fact it’s not about the form. But it’s for all of us to be honest in ourselves about ‘what is actually in front of me to look at.’ I don’t think it was any of the experiences I had that actually made me full. I think it was that I had so many of them, and it got to the point where I could just have as many more as I wanted to. And I was like ‘well, I’m not getting any more free from this.’ And the thing is, you don’t want to admit that you’re full until you actually are. The ‘when am I full?’ mind belongs mostly on the earning track [in life]. That’s mostly a question I get coming from a scarcity mentality. There’s experiences to be had in the ‘how much can I have’ track, but I’m going to hazard a guess that most of you guys in this room actually have no idea what your real appetite’s actually like. We’ve been living in caged-tiger land for a very very long time; playing by caged tiger rules. And there’s something far more interesting beyond that horizon to play with.” "

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