Sexual Secretions and Chi Energy
The body must invest a lot of essence and energy to fully replenish semen supplies and re-establish proper hormone balance after a man ejaculates. No full replenishment causes fatigue, etc. and as a result loss of sexual interest in their ‘inexhaustible’ female partners.
In both men and women, sexual secretions contain many pure, potent, biochemically active substances: hormones, enzymes, proteins, vitamins and other elements.
When female secretions are released into the warm, moist environment of the vagina during intercourse, they come into direct contact with the sensitive, skin of the man’s blood engorged penis. Body heat opens wide the pores of this stretched skin, and the rhythmic rubbing of vagina and penis caused biochemically significant amounts of female ‘essence’ to be absorbed by the male.
A pinhead quantity of essential hormone suffices to exert profound physiological effects upon the entire endocrine system once it enters the bloodstream. In the sexually excited male, blood courses powerfully through the penis and picks up whatever hormones are absorbed in the vagina by friction and osmosis.
Similarly, the spongy tissues of a woman’s vagina absorb active elements from her own secretions and from male semen after a man ejaculates inside, especially if one uses Taoist techniques to prolong direct contact.
For women, frequent intercourse with orgasm is the most efficient method of cultivating sexual essence and energy. For men, frequent intercourse with infrequent ejaculation is the key technique for cultivating sexual essence and energy.
Retaining semen during sex enables a man to preserve and reabsorb his own essence, but also enables him to prolong the act sufficiently for his partner to reach full orgasm, and release her most potent secretions for his benefit.
A man’s sexual responses are largely limited to his penis (the four Attainments), whereas a woman’s occur throughout her body (Five signs, Ten Indications).
The same goes for sexual secretions. A man’s essence comes mainly from his sexual organ, but a woman emits essence from all ‘Three Peaks’: tongue, nipples and vagina. Men who practice Tao benefit from all three ‘libations’.
P’eng-Tzu points out the medicinal benefits of the ‘upper libation’, but he states clearly that only the saliva secreted ‘during intercourse’ contains the magic elixir: “During intercourse, if a man takes in a lot of the woman’s saliva, it will purify his stomach like medicinal broth”.
As for the potent therapeutic value of the ‘middle libation’ secreted from a woman’s nipples, Western medical science has recently uncovered evidence that tends to confirm the traditional Taoist view.
It has been firmly established that mother’s milk contains powerful immunity factors secreted from certain glands in the breasts which protect nursing infants from a wide range of degenerative diseases. It is logical to assume, therefore, that the ducts that produce these immunity factors in a woman’s breast may be stimulated to secrete those factors by a combination of intense sexual excitement and strong, prolonged sucking of the nipples during intercourse, and that these secretions form the ‘Great Libation of the Middle Peak’.
Regarding the lower libation, it should be noted that Taoist have always regarded cunnilingus (oral sex on vagina) as an excellent way to absorb this elixir.
Exchanging essence and energy between Yin and Yang during intercourse
If the man controls himself long enough for the woman to reach orgasm then suppresses his own ejaculation, he absorbs both his own and her essence as well as her energy, while she still derives the benefits of reabsorbing a measure of her own sexual secretions.
The final alternative is for the man to permit himself his scheduled ejaculation after his partner has reached an orgasm. Both partners absorb each other’s sexual essence and energy in a perfectly balanced coition.
The method is to ‘thrust inward fiercely but draw outward slowly, thereby ‘dragging the Yin essence in through the skin of the Yang peak’. Swelling and contracting the penis deep inside the vagina by deliberately flexing the muscles of the penile shaft is another highly recommended technique for promoting absorption of Yin essence during intercourse.
After the woman has had several orgasms and is thoroughly satisfied, the man should start thrusting again deeply and rhythmically. When the pressure to ejaculate mounts, he should stop and ‘return the semen’ to his prostate.
When his semen is returned and his heart once again calm, he may repeat this process again, 3 to 5 times.
The prolonged friction between Jade Gate and Jade Stem facilitates absorption of Yin essence, while the excitement of repeatedly approaching the brink of ejaculation greatly increases a man’s own internal sexual secretions.
Such serial retentions also redirect the man’s unexploded sexual energy inward and upward. This can often be felt coursing up along the spine as ‘goose bumps’ or as heat waves at various points in the body.
