Greta Christina wrote:
Tag, you’re it! But only if you want to be.

http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2006/12/tag_youre_it.html

I just got tagged with this book-related internet game, and found it
fairly entertaining, so I’m now tagging you. Play if you think it’d be
fun, don’t if you don’t. This is not a chain letter, bad luck will not
follow you if you break the chain of this silly game.

The rules:

1) Pick up the book that you are nearest to with 123 or more pages.
(According to early versions: Don’t search around and look for the
“coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.)

CQ interjects: It happens to be one of the coolest books I can find! And also one that isn’t on the market yet, I’m currently reading it to blurb it — so I had to ask the author whether it was OK to play the game with it. That’s what took me so long. It’s *Urban Tantra* by Barbara Carrellas; it’ll be out shortly by Celestial Arts Press.

2) Turn to page 123.

CQ interpolates: OK. Besides the regular text, which is about “Try New Sensations” and “Take Yourself on a Tantric Date,” it has a sidebar extolling a practice I first learned about from Annie Sprinkle — “medibation,” which is “the practice of using masturbation as a meditation.” FYI: There is an awesome video with her doing this out in nature. I think it’s in one of House o’ Chicks’ “Masturbation Memoirs” tapes.

3) Locate the fifth full sentence in that page.

CQ continues: OK.

4) Copy that and the next two sentences that follow.

CQ says,
“Yes, ma’am”: “Practice Tantra in front of your camera; then watch the tape to improve your technique. You will absolutely thrill at your inner exhibitionist.
I’d like you to invite yourself out on a real date.”

5) Post it on your own blog, and as a comment on my blog.

CQ again: Done! And as soon as I’ve hit “publish” I’ll post on Greta’s.

6) Tag three more bloggers to do the same.

CQ chooses some hopefully-willing victims: Candye Kane, Gina de Vries, Melissa Gira… tag!

Have fun!

-Greta

OK, all CQ now:
Greta didn’t say I couldn’t indulge in a little commentary, so…

May I just say that it is SO excellently weird that the three sentences I was sent to in Barbara’s book mention exhibitionism? I did, you all know (I hope), write Exhibitionism for the Shy. While the book is temporarily out of print, I probably have the only stash of copies; if you want one, email me here: carol@carolqueen.com Has everyone else who’s played this game had, like, cosmic experiences, or is it just me? (You know, I came of age in Eugene, Oregon, where we *really* believed in cosmic experiences…)

And I’d also like to note that it is *damned time* that we’re to see Barbara’s fine book! Any of you who ever thought Tantra was too, like, woo, or Marin (or Eugene, for that matter), or “Asian” (like most of the Tantra we see in the US is even remotely Asian, really — puh-lease) to hook you in: Barbara Carrellas will cure you of all this. And she has had a hell of a time getting a book publisher to take this non-trad Tantra seriously enough to let her publish her book the way she wants it to be. I’m so thrilled Celestial Arts was up for it.

Just stay tuned, everybody. It’ll be worth it.

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