Yes, Yes, Yes! | Is Orgasmic Meditation the New OM?

An experience with orgasmic meditation begins the opening of not only the author’s libido, but her entire being

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In February 2010, freshly separated from my now ex-husband, I was sitting across the table from my dear friend Kelly at our favorite restaurant in Boulder, The Kitchen, when she said two words that I had no idea were about to change my life: Orgasmic Meditation. Yep, you read that right. Orgasmic Meditation. She was telling me about the book project she was working on. She was helping a woman named Nicole Daedone write her new book, Slow Sex: The Art and Craft of the Female Orgasm. When I asked Kelly what “slow sex” meant, she told me the book was about a practice called OM or Orgasmic Meditation. OM — pronounced “om” — was apparently a practice where a woman (ahem) takes off her pants, lies down, and a fully clothed man strokes her genitals in a very particular way for fifteen minutes. Both participants keep their attention on the sensation they feel at the point of contact between them. After the fifteen minutes, each shares a moment of sensation they remember feeling during the OM, and then they get up and go about their days.

Seriously? But it got even more outrageous, because Kelly — my closest friend, a totally normal person as far