SEXUAL ENERGY Sexual energy, or ching-chi (pronounced JING-CHEE) in Chinese, is one of the mos t obvious and powerful types

of bioelectric energy. What we in the West call get ting aroused, or getting horny, the Taoists thought of as the generating of sexu al energy. Sexual Kung Fu practices are based on cultivating this sexual energy and using it to increase your overall energy and health. You must learn to draw your sexual energy out of your genitals and to circulate it through the rest of your body to truly master the Taoist techniques for experiencing multiple and wh ole-body orgasms and for improving your health. As we mentioned in the previous chapter, according to the Taoists all the parts of your body (including the brain, glands, organs, and senses) give their best e nergy during orgasm to create a new life. This is the power that goes into creat ing a child, but when procreation is not the goal, the Taoists believe, it is be st to conserve this energy and channel it throughout your body for pleasure and health. Since we are conceived through orgasm and orgasmic energy permeates ever ycell of our body, to stay healthy and active we need to feel this rejuvenaing, ogasmic energy regularly C ideally, every day. Once you develop the ability to circulate sexual energy through amour body, you will be able to feel this sensation throughout your body anywhere and at any tim e. Senior Healing Tao instructor Michael Winn explains: "Sexual energy is availa ble to men twenty-four hours a day, but most men starve themselves because they believe they can satisfy themselves sexually only during a few minutes of interc ourse. The most liberating thing for men is to discover that they have total acc ess to and control over their sexual energy at any time." You may be wondering w hether all of this sexual energy will result in your feeling constantly aroused and in need of having sex, "an itch that needs to be scratched." On the contrary , men (and women) have sexual urges that need to be acted on or channeled in som e way. In the West, we have tried to suppress or sublimate these desires, but ac cording to the Tao this leads to physical and psychological imbalances. When you practice self-cultivation, this feeling of arousal will result not in u ncontrollable sexual urges but in an energetic, calm sense of well-being. One mu lti-orgasmic man explains the difference: "Before I started practicing Sexual Ku ng Fu, if I had not ejaculated in a while, my sexual urge would get stronger and stronger. I would look at pornography, look for one-night stands, or go to pros titutes. After ejaculating, this urge would disappear almost instantly and I cou ldnt understand why I had spent so much time and money trying to satisfy it. I wou ld tell myself that I wouldnt do it next time, but I knew that after a while the s exual urge would return and I would do it all over again. When I finally started practicing Sexual Kung Fu, my sexual energy was still strong, but balanced. It was the first time in my life I was happy to be a man sexually, because I finall y had control over my sexual energy." As you practice, you may have more sexual energy than you are used to, and you w ill need to learn to channel this excess energy. As one multi-orgasmic man expla ined, "When I started the practice, all of my relationships became sexualized. I needed to learn to circulate and balance the energy." If this happens to you, t he Cool Draw exercise described in the following chapter will help you transform this sexual energy into more neutral and less volatile physical energy, referre d to earlier as chi. You can also take up Tai-chi or chi-kung (pronounced CHEE-G UNG) or other practices to help you ground and channel this additional energy. E xercise in general will help you to manage this additional energy.