4 Good Reasons to Try Tantric Masturbation
Enhance your sexual experience through exploration

Tantric masturbation is a slow, steady exploration of pleasure that is more concerned with the journey, rather than the orgasmic destination. If you never thought about adding this type of masturbation to your repertoire before, the following are some good reasons experts told me people should give it a try.
Learning About What You Enjoy
Cultivating an intentional and embodied source of knowledge within yourself can help you advocate more readily for what you want or don’t want in sexual scenarios with a partner. Tantric masturbation is a kind of sex education like no other, and can equip you with a whole new repertoire of sexual activities to try with a partner.
-Kate Balestrieri, Psy.D, Founder of Modern Intimacy
Enhancing Partnered Sex
Tantric masturbation will naturally make you more sensitive and attuned as a lover. It’s incredibly common for people to develop tantric awareness into lovemaking through incorporating elements such as eye gazing, breath control as a way of circulating energy and orgasm, and a higher level of intentional touch, which can feel off-the-charts amazing. Solo pleasure can always help improve your sex life with a partner, and as you invite an even more conscious approach, it can help you in relaxing your defenses and invite you to experience a more nuanced relationship to sex and your lover.
-Megwyn White, Certified Clinical Sexologist and Director of Education for Satisfyer

Creating a Sense of Sexual Surrender
Taking the time to stay connected and conscious to your own experience during solo sex can leave you primed for deeper surrender to pleasure with a partner too. Having built a sense of trust in yourself, and your own sexual attunement, you can more easily surrender to pleasure without self-abandon.
-Kate Balestrieri, Psy.D, Founder of Modern Intimacy
Regulating Emotions
Slow touch has been known to help in regulating your emotions by helping to access what’s called the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, or HPA axis, via slow touch receptors within your skin. The HPA axis constitutes the organs which comprise neuroendocrine systems. Tantric masturbation invites slow touch and meditation helps in regulating emotions and supporting your neuroendocrine system to be able to handle stress more easily. This can be especially beneficial for those struggling with any kind of physical or emotional trauma. It can also be helpful for those starting a new relationship to stay in command of their own reality and help in balancing the challenges of attachment styles that often arise. Thankfully, this system can be nourished and developed with consistent practice, which is one of the benefits of taking time out to practice tantric masturbation.
-Megwyn White, Certified Clinical Sexologist and Director of Education for Satisfyer
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