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> I wasn't being sarcastic at all!

I know you weren't. I was saying I have a good time with sarcasm.

>My native Portuguese speaking
> wife who has a degree in English as a language can't get a job at an American
> university teaching Portuguese because... get this... she doesn't have a degree in
> Portuguese as a language...

Yeah. Standardisation isn't to blame - but its manifest has tended to be

> T&D = tease & denial, sometimes called erotic denial....

Ohh. Seems you're much more knowledgable about Tantra than I. I don't prefer it's rigorous bottom-up (no pun intended) approach, and its massive doctrine. Tantra/yoga/etc is extremely academic, the Indian culture severely animist.

The Chinese system of chi, while more preferable, is still too involved for me. I tend toward a Transcendentalist mode, similar to the 19th century New England philosophers, where one simply pays attention to the cosmos and experiences it.

I could go on about (what I call) energistic elements, but will only say that intent and imagery are important in harnessing, exchanging, amplifying, storing, and utilizing sensual energy.

I can see how T&D could be confused with BDSM. I prefer easy, open exchange. I don't enjoy BDSM, and think I wouldn't enjoy T&D. Besides, it's too much like or too close to 'courting', of which I absolutely abhor.

By the way, while I have physically trained people, I don't actually have classes in anything, let alone sensuality. That is a notion a female friend or two has come up with.

Consider it high comedy....sincere tragedy....whatever...don't take it personally.

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