He loves you, he loves me. He'll teach you tantric for a fee.
If you survived the 1990s, you either loved or loathed Barney and Friends: the kid's television show that taught children how to share, be great friends to one another, and that it's OK to pursue a career in show business without an ounce of talent in your body. While the show was left to die in a ditch some time ago by PBS, at least one of the people involved in its production has gone on to get tangled up in a new venture.
David Joyner spent 10 years moving inside of Barney (get yer minds outta the gutter) as the actor that played the purple dinosaur. According to Vice, Joyner, now free of his relationship with Barney, has moved on to become a full service tantric sex practitioner. His ladies-only service has been around, in one form or another, since 2004 and currently boasts a roster of 30 patients who pay him $350 an hour to do his thing: teaching them how to do their thing, with his thing.
As journalist Rebekah Sager explains:
For clients, this "higher and more blissful state of awareness" is often best achieved through penetrative, ideally unprotected sex, according to Joyner. Condoms "block the energy,” he says, and he prefers not to use them. Joyner provides his STD test results to prospective clients, who are asked to disclose any STDs in a signed consent form prior to their first session. These methods, according to other tantra coaches, are highly unorthodox.
Unorthodox is an understatement. Sager goes on to interview other tantric experts who feel that the need to preform without a condom is "shady" and that, while penetration can be a part of a tantric experience, fruitful tantric sessions can often occur without a single piece of clothing being removed.
I'm of the mind that two consenting adults ought to be able to do whatever they please with one another. No matter whether it involves money, straight vanilla sex or a weed-whacker. It's a terrible world and we have a right to find happiness where we can. Your world view may differ. Taking a read of Sager's well-written feature will either increase your love for a man who has sought to increase joy everywhere he goes, or will finally confirm that deep feeling of dread every time the show's opening theme played within earshot was an instinct you were right to listen to.
