About the author
Barbara Carrellas is an author, sex educator, performance artist, and certified sexologist accredited through the American College of Sexologists. She facilitates workshops in which participants explore sexuality through a holistic approach that includes practices like erotic breathwork and Tantra, and she has lectured at various institutions, including the Museum of Sex in New York City, Vassar College, Barnard College, and the Chicago Art Institute. She is known for her "breath and energy orgasm" techniques, which she says are "orgasms you can have using your imagination and your breath". Carrellas learned the technique during the height of the AIDS epidemic as a way for people to orgasm without physical contact. Such techniques, she says, offers a way for "people to have more safer-sex options". Carrellas spent five years in the 1990s living in Australia but currently resides in New York City and lives with her partner, Kate Bornstein. In 2010, she appeared on the Canadian television show Sex Matters, and in the TLC show Strange Sex.
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“Carrellas successfully bridges ancient wisdom with twenty-first-century realities, offering a compassionate roadmap for sacred sex that feels both grounded and expansive. The revised edition’s strength lies in its explicit…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century (Revised)
“Carrellas delivers an inviting and necessary expansion of ecstatic theory, successfully decoupling joy from restrictive sexual expectations. The inclusion of trauma healing and neurodiversity perspectives makes this edition…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on The Book of Ecstasy: Opening Yourself Up to Erotic Energy--In All Its Forms
