Banking the Flame of Sex

There is an old saw among yogis--"you cant put out a fire by putting fuel on it"--but oh, yes you can! If you put enough fuel on, the fire will be reduced, and if you put on enough, you can put it out! It's called banking a flame, well known to stationary engineers.

That is what happened with the Buddha, before he became the Buddha: as a young Prince, he could have all the sex he wanted with the most beautiful women, any time he wanted, and he ended by saying, "What is this? What am I doing?" and gave it all up. My counter to the old saw is, "A starving man cant fast". I felt that I had not had the amount of sex or the number of partners that the average American guy of my age should have had. I could count the women I had sex with one one hand and have fingers left over, and I was in my 40's.

Lucky me, at that time I was living in a prostitution neighborhood of sorts, so I quickly ran out of fingers and toes, also, and then I became pleased with my attainments and stopped. This may be hard for the non-Thelemic yogi to grasp, but when I was no longer "starving" I could take a normal view of the thing and "fast". I treat hookers like people, and some treated me the same and some did not. I met a guy who wouldnt see a hooker because he "might fall in love with her"--poor guy had sex and love confused--might as well not go into McDonald's because you might fall in love with the clerk. I have never "fallen in love" with anybody I ever paid for sex, but I have liked most of them, and some have liked me. Of course, chicks in the "bargain basement"of the sex business tend to have a lot of problems--they tend to ring your doorbell at 3 am and stuff like that, but if you want the sex, that's what you put up with.

Some women in the nut department of the woman's movement consider prostitution to be rape--of who, I'd like to know--the prostitute or me?