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The Soul of Sexual Poetry

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How can sexual love poetry enrich our sexual lives, relationships, and sensual experiences? Find out in this wonderfully engaging conversation between Francesca Gentille, host of the Sex: Tantra & Kama Sutra podcast, and Wendy Maltz, author/editor of two award-winning sexual love poetry anthologies – Passionate Hearts: The Poetry of Sexual Love and Intimate Kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure. Their unique discussion is peppered with Wendy reading poems from her collections by well-known poets, such as Marge Piercy, Octavio Pax, Nikki Giovanni, and others — and Francesca sharing insights on love and soul-connected sex from her many years teaching Tantric sexual practices.

Topics covered include:

  1. How Wendy’s interest in sexual love poetry emerged from her counseling work with survivors of sexual abuse and others.
  2. How people use the collections for sex education, healing, and inspiration
  3. The pleasure and value of reading sexual love poetry aloud to a partner
  4. How erotic poetry is able to describe sex well because it highlights elements in nature and “blends the senses”
  5. The yin-yang beauty and nature of touch
  6. How creating the collections inspired Wendy to write her own erotic poems

Personal Life Media, Sex: Tantra & Kama Sutra podcast, Episode 40: 2007.

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