Even if it seems at first that vinyl, leather and shackles don’t go along with incense, sarong and mantra, there are some important parallels between Tantra and BDSM:

  • The ritual handling of sexuality and sexual energy.
  • The focus (on what?) and the increase of attention.
  • The conscious interaction of giving and taking
  • The intensification of experience resulting in ecstasy and the search thereafter.
  • The possibility of new, intense bodily and physical experience, possibly leading to transformation, change and broadening of the horizon.
  • The understanding as sexuality as an innate power, not bound to standardized relationship concepts.