karezza en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /kɑˈɹɛtsə/
Etymology
Coined by Alice Bunker Stockham from Italian carezza (“caress”). Doublet of caress.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Non-religious spiritual sexual practices that draw upon tantric techniques of body control but do not involve any of tantra's cultural or iconographic symbolism; intended to promote birth control, equality for women, and marital pleasure and fidelity.
For those who could not manage this, another curious choice was available: “karezza” or intercourse without male orgasm (Stockham, 1896). Karezza was promoted as a technique with several advantages: men could demonstrate sexual […]
2012, Martha Kirkpatrick, Women’s Sexual Development: Explorations of Inner Space, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 23:Karezza seems to me to be the sex-blending of the moral natures, it seems to call out and arouse to an ecstasy of delight and power the spiritual and poetic nature of both man and woman. It gives strength as if it were the key to unlock powers.
1903, Alice Bunker Stockham, Karezza: Ethics of Marriage:
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