Heather Graham Catches Sting’s Tantric Sex Bug

by Lael

Heather Graham’s best dramatic performance to date was as the dissolute 70’s porn starlet Roller Girl in Paul Thomas Anderson’s wrenching period drama Boogie Nights. Although Graham powerfully and memorably portrayed this human being damaged by a world of degraded sexuality, the actress herself, according to one recent early morning talk show interview, has a much more positive and even spiritual connection to sex.

Like music superstar Sting whom she mentions in the interview (click HERE to view), Graham is a practitioner of tantric sex. Helpfully, she refers interested viewers to The Art of Sexual Ecstasy by Margot Anand, the book that first turned her on to the practice, so to speak. Subtitled The Path of Sacred Sexuality for Western Lovers, Anand’s book is billed on its cover as “a course in enhancing pleasure and deepening intimacy.”

Among other skills, the volume promises to teach readers “the delicate art of seduction and awakening the five senses,” to “express their vision of the god or goddess within as they dance for each other,” and to “develop humor and playfulness in love, and harmonize their energies in a soul-to-soul communion.”

Graham does seem playful, energized and open as she enthuses about tantra’s “full body orgasm.” But is society at large ready for the harmonious joining of the sacred and sexual realms? The nervous titters Graham’s candor elicits from her interviewers may indicate that, even in our sex-saturated media culture, talk of female orgasm and pleasure, especially of going to “a spiritual level with your orgasm,” may be a final taboo.

| 10/18/07 | Practices