03-11-2018, 08:36 AM
(03-08-2018, 02:43 AM)Agua Wrote: This is not true!
There are many homosexual people practicing tantra!
In a homosexual pairing, one part has a more female while the other has a more male energy!
Apart from that, sexual intercourse is only a tiny part of tantra!
I have been practicing tantra for more than 15 years now,btw.
That's true, but there are also things that can't be done in a homosexual pairing. Having children, for instance. There are probably ways to get around or emulate most requirements for sexual spiritual work with a partner of the same sex, but there are also things that can't be done. I've known about orders that don't allow homosexuals in for this reason, and for the most part I'm against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, but that's perfectly valid (being that the discrimination is for the purposes of the laws of physics and not out of knee-jerk emotional reaction).
That said, it sounds like the order in the OP is doing it because of all the psychological knots that having a non-straight sexual orientation can tie in one's head, and also sounds like that passage was written a long time ago, so I say go for it.
If OP is really determined to join this order, and it's really an issue, he could also engage sexually with someone of the opposite gender purely for the purposes of ritual or whatever and continue being himself in his day to day life.