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Polynesian
Sex: The Path of the Ocean
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What voyager would wish to
wander the shores of just one of those islands? Similarly a man or woman can walk a million different paths. Each path is only one of many worlds he or she might enter. Yet what adventurous soul - looking up at the billions of stars - would want to visit just one? |
Knowing how to journey to different worlds is like knowing how to voyage the great distances between the Pacific islands. It required of the ancient Polynesian navigators certain knowledge and skills. First they needed a worthy sailing vessle. And because the voyages were long and required endurance, they needed nourishment. But mostly they needed to feel at home within that immense uncharted and unfathomable expanse between islands - that great ever-rolling, beauteous blue nothingness that separates all those lush and alluring tropical lands. Lovers around the world have become entranced with Polynesian sex because in its embrace they merge into an immeasurable and subtle ocean of peace that takes them beyond the world. Polynesian sex, after all, is not about navigating a passage through the reef into some tropical Polynesian realm: wearing a grass skirt, eating a mango or coconut, feeling the trade winds upon one's skin, and speaking words such as aloha and hauameamea. The ancient Polynesians enjoyed Polynesian sex as a voyage away from the confines of their everyday world, as a way to go beyond the reef, into the unchartered seas of intimacy they fathomed in their lover's arms. Pacific passion - because it is pacific - calm and peaceful - is about enjoying a laid-back, lazy realm in love and allowing oneself to relax into the rhythm of its deep currents that carry lovers to a stillness beyond all worlds . . |
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Just
as the ancient South Pacific navigators were guided in their voyages
by the stars, those skilled in pacific passion navigate the seas of
sensuality though both the
body and the heart. Having become sensitive to the subtle space between stimulation and stillness - explorers of Polynesian sex ride the heartfelt inner currents of their energies as these merge into a single spiritual sea. At the pivot between stimulation and stillness, At the conjunction of stirring and repose, What arises cannot be halted. When it hides, it is like a shadow disappearing, When it moves, it is like an echo rising. The wonderous couple rides the waves of the pure, Their hearts glowing like two golden blossoms. Holding together like Heaven and Earth Together they share spirit's transformations. Energy in motion, like two arching rainbows, Holding to center, they become wildly free. Polynesian sex is not about the end of the embrace. It is the embrace itself - the formless space awaiting lovers between the worlds of arousal and tranquility. |
The Zen of
Polynesian Sex
It
is not by chance that Japanese lovers have
been the first to
embrace these lost teachings of Polynesian sex (ポリネシアンセックス). Zen - after all - has long
instilled the Japanese aesthetic sense with a feeling for formlessness
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So it is not such a great a
leap to fathom the formless in all the various forms of physical
intimacy. After Hosei University Press published James N. Powell's Energy and Eros in Japan, two volumes by Japan's revered Buddhist author - Hiroyuki Itsuki - appeared that were inspired by the way of Polynesian sex (ポリネシアンセックス) taught within Energy and Eros. In fact Itsuki has a tendency to publish books that are mostly formless white space, containing only a few words per page for his readers to contemplate. As a result of Powell and Itsuki's efforts, Polynesian sex (ポリネシアンセックス) has gained a following in Japan, espoused by pop stars, models, the literati and even the head of Japan's Family Planning Association, Kunio Kitamura. James N. Powell's new book on Polynesian sex, Slow Love: A Polynesian Pillow Book, will soon be published in Japan and also available in Chinese, Spanish and French. It is available on this site in English. |
| Currently Polynesian sex, as taught in James
N. Powell's Energy and Eros
and Slow Love: A
Polynesian Pillow Book, is more popular in Japan than in
Polynesia, where ironically it is still relatively unknown. This is because tribal peoples all over the world often find themselves in the position that in order to learn about their ancient and traditional customs - and sometimes even their own language - they need to go to an anthropologist who has a record of such things. In the case of the Polynesians, the unfortunate fact is that at the time of first European contact with these islanders, the latter had no immunity to European diseases. As a result any full-blooded Polynesians disappeared quickly. The ones who survived were the offspring of those who had increasd their immunity by intermarriage with Europeans, Chinese or those of mixed heritage from other Pacific islands. Thus, after a few generations, there were few pure-blooded Polynesians survived. |
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addition, many of the customs of the Pacific Islanders soon became
extinct. Their traditional homes - fashioned from natural materials and perfectly suited to the tropical environment - slowly became more and more rare. Whereas it used to be possible to voyage to a Pacific isle, build a hut in the traditional manner, and live in it, soon the shores of the islands were lined with European-style buildings and then upscale hotels catering to the jet set. In the 1920s a group of French adventurers traveled around Tahiti for three months, enjoying the legendary Polynesian hospitality, feasting on traditional fare each evening, and spending the days in idleness. Their entire bill for the three months was $35, today's price for a couple of drinks in a high-end Tahitian hotel. George Fawell, in his book Last Days in Paradise, wrote of how he returned to Tahiti after a 25-year absence. In the old Tahiti, he reminisced, "You lived always on impulse. You rose with the sun and swam in the lagoon before breakrast; you took an outrigger canoe out to those clear green shallows inside the reef; you fished and dived beneath a shelf of brilliantly-hued coral; you lay in the sun till it soaked into you like the fragrant coconut oil the Tahitians used on skin and hair; you took a siesta as did any reasonable race in such a climate; you wrote, or read, or listened to the urgent pulse of the music of the music the islanders made; you danced the wild dances of those girls with brown smooth flesh, listened to the sound of the far-out reef. That reef. Waking and asleep, it became part of the texture of your days. Living there you were seldom aware of it, but its remote and drum-like resonance persisted at deeper levels." However, in the new Tahiti of 1964, a runway had just been built that could accomodate jet planes and the heavy equipment needed for France's atomic bomb program. Farwell lamented: "The traditional life of the islanders is breaking up, and no adequate modern way of life is replacing it. The French colonial regime, swollen with functionaries from Algeria, is rigidly bureaucratic. The Chinese are moving in, at the expense of the Tahitians. De Gaulle plans a rocket base on Mangareva. And the islanders try naively to turn their backs on their problems, continuing to live wholly in the present." The coconut groves and lagoons he had once loved were no more. They had been replaced by piers, oil tanks and traffic. |
| South Seas art suffered a similar
fate. Little of the art antedating
the arrival of the European voyagers survived. Most of it - like
much else in South Seas culture - was simply deemed demonic,and
destroyed. Some of the heavier and more indestructible forms of
artistic and religious experssion, however, remain to this day.
The famous statues of Easter Island provide a good example. |
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Similarly,
the traditional way of Polynesian sex (ポリネシアンセックス) - for the most part - gave
way to European
missionary anti-sexual attitudes and shame-oriented feelings about the
body. South Sea islanders traditionally had viewed the nude human form as natural and beautiful. However, the Europeans who came to conquer and inhabit the islands found the native dances and other displays of the human body indecent. They enforced strict anti-sexual laws and customs. Within a century almost all of Polynesia had become puritanical in comparison to its erotically open past. The sensual traditional Tahitian dress called the pareau, which had become popular in Paris and New York, at the same time was forbidden for Tahitian women. It should come as no surprise, then, that the teachings on Polynesian sex found in James N. Powell's Energy and Eros and Slow Love: A Polynesian Pillow Book are no longer practiced widely in the South Seas today. |
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