If we just have relationship sex, it’s merely sense gratification and lasts for a short time. It will take us lower in thinking because we are doing things for the body and the orgasm (especially males) will cause a loss of vital life force, slowing down spiritual practice. Tantric Yoga was taught by masters to avoid this loss and enhance the sexual experience by concentrating on the intimacy that real love produces.

If we make love within the sanctimony of marriage or a strong relationship, then our intention is different and our chakras open up differently. The union becomes sacred where two bodies merge with a strong desire to please the other more than a need to please oneself. In olden times, masters recommended people to be virgins to enhance the sacredness of love-making.  In modern times, we say the love word a little too easily and change partners a little too often. But the theory still has not changed.