The Tao of Love and Sex - 1977

"Longevity and the sexual response; the prolongation of virility into extreme old age; the art of lovemaking regarded as a basic therapy in the Taoist medical canon -- these subjects, which are of burning topicality for us in the West, are discussed with insight in this first detailed study of the lovecraft of the Taoist medical schools. In an age gone putrid by its mishandling of sexual problems, where the young fumble and flounder among the new freedoms hunting for beauty and the old die off for lack of sexual love, these matters cut to the bone. Mr. Jolan Chang has brought us some of the priceless wisdom of ancient times. Between the 13th and 14th centuries the Mongols who ruled China for 88 years made a clean sweep of all Taoist literature except the Tao Te Ching and this work of scholarship and insight is the first attempt to assemble the fragments and shards which remain into a coherent picture of Taoist teachings about the role of sexual love as a therapeutic agent for all healing in the medicine of ancient times. Connected as love was to a notion of cosmic force emanating from the Tao Principle, the ancient attitudes did not distinguish between love sacred and love profane as we have done in the West." - Lawrence Durrell - The Tao of Love and Sex: The Ancient Chinese Way to Ecstasy - Jolan Chang Published 1977, E.P. Dutton, New York Softcover. Approx. 7x9.5in. 136pp. In good vintage condition. Cover has a few minor nicks and dings.