According to the unnamed Taoist author, the fluids emitted by a woman from under her tongue, her breasts and vagina held special linctus.
“The man’s goal for the sake of his own health was to stir the release of these precious fluids.”
Did you know, for example, about the “jade juice” from a woman’s breasts, which the Chinese believe nourishes a man’s spleen and spinal cord?
This is where I laughed out loud. I could picture those men dutifully giving the breasts all the necessary attention to extract some “medicine”…as the generous wives lay there enjoying this extraction.
Ask your husband whether he is sure his spleen and spinal cord need no medicine…
The text talks about a “flowery pool” and a “mysterious gate” down yonder that have their own combination of medicinal fluids and chi (energy), if only the men unlocked them.
I love this Chinese thinking. And, don’t get me wrong, I am not ridiculing it; I am just waiting for a scientist to come and back this up.
There have been studies on hormones/neurochemicals such as oxytocin, prolactin and dopamine, whose health and wellbeing benefits have been well documented. And they are all directly linked to great lovemaking.
But the medicinal value in the fluids themselves? I am yet to read about that!
Still, isn’t it about time wives rebranded and copied the Chinese way, to make husbands more sexually generous and interested in foreplay?
Point your husband to the Taoist; the fluids have medicinal value for him.
Something like: “If you don’t get enough medicine for yourself, darling……umhhmm; shauri yako!”
I also like that the Chinese taught their men from a young age that, “A woman loves slowness (hsu) and duration (chiu), and abhors haste and violence (pao)….In her sexual responses, she is compared to the element water, ‘slow to heat and slow to cool’….Prolonged foreplay is the precondition for orgasm.”
Wolf notes that the Taoist sexual texts assert that the female sexual intensity is stronger than its male counterpart and so the sexual training of men was necessary to harmonise those innate disharmonies.
Ah! These Chinese have indeed always been smart; no wonder China is the new superpower.
And here we are in Africa and Uganda in particular, where all emphasis is put on training the women to please their husbands sexually, while nobody says a thing to the men in way of training, thus cementing the sexual disharmonies in marriages this side of the globe.
Well, it is not too late. Since everything we use now comes from China anyway, we can add ‘satisfactory sex’ to that long list.
Gentlemen, you heard the Taoist: “When intercourse takes place, the woman’s emotions are voluptuous…her voice trembling. At this time her gate opens up, her chi is released, and [the medicine you need] overflows.”
Go figure.
carol@observer.ug
