Footnotes

*1 Source: www.menopause.org.

*2 Leslie Kenton, Passage to Power: Natural Menopause Revolution (London: Random House, 1995), 59.

*3 Kenton, Passage to Power, 61.

*4 Christiane Northrup, M.D., The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health during the Change (New York: Bantam Books, 2012), 143.

*5 HeartMath is a system of techniques designed to transform stress and develop the heart’s intelligence.

*6 Diana Richardson, Tantric Orgasm for Women (Rochester, Vt.: Destiny Books, 2004).

*7 Belinda Luscombe, Time (April 11, 2016), 34; and Gary Wilson, Your Brain on Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction (Margate, Kent, U.K.: Commonwealth Publishing, 2015).

*8 These Love Keys and guidelines were initially elaborated in Diana Richardson’s first book, written in 1996, initially entitled The Love Keys, the Art of Ecstatic Sex: A Unique Guide to Love and Sexual Fulfillment, and then republished under its current title The Heart of Tantric Sex: A Unique Guide to Love and Sexual Fulfillment (Arlesford, Hants, U.K.: “O” Books, 2010).

*9 This subject is elaborated upon by the scientific research presented in Marnia Robinson’s book Cupid’s Poisoned Arrow. See recommended books section.

*10 Source: http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/facts-about-breast-implants.

*11 Christiane Northrup, M.D., The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health during the Change (New York: Bantam Books, 2012), 538.

*12 Diana Richardson, Tantric Love Letters: A Collection of Experiences, Questions, and Answers (Arlesford, Hants, U.K.: “O” Books, 2011), 155.

*13 Diana Richardson, Slow Sex: How Sex Makes You Happy—A New Style of Loving, DVD, 80 minutes (Cologne, Germany: Innenvelt Verlag, 2011).

*14 Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitoris.

*15 Leslie Kenton, Passage to Power: Natural Menopause Revolution (London: Random House, 1995); and Christiane Northrup, M.D., The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health during the Change (New York: Bantam Books, 2012).

*16 Candace B. Pert, Ph.D., Molecules of Emotion: The Science behind Mind-Body Medicine (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999).

*17 Excerpted from Diana Richardson and Michael Richardson, Tantric Love: Feeling versus Emotion—Golden Rules to Make Love Easy (Arlesford, Hants, U.K.: “O” Books, 2010), 10–11.

*18 Excerpted from Richardson and Richardson, Tantric Love: Feeling versus Emotion, 13–14.

*19 Marshall Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, 3rd ed. (Encinitas, Calif.: PuddleDancer Press, 2015).

*20 Dan Siegal, The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind (New York: Bantam, 2012).

*21 Christiane Northrup, M.D., The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health during the Change (New York: Bantam Books, 2012), 292.

*22 Christiane Northrup, M.D., Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing (New York: Bantam Books, 2010), 177.

*23 Arvigo Practitioners, Journeys into Healing: Inspiring Experiences of Arvigo Practitioners and Their Clients (Antrim, N.H.: The Arvigo Institute, 2014).

*24 Christine Ann Kent, Saving the Whole Woman: Natural Alternatives to Surgery for Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Urinary Incontinence (Albuquerque, N.M.: Bridgeworks, Inc., 2008), 122.

*25 Kent, Saving the Whole Woman.

*26 Partly adapted from the teachings of Rachael Jayne Groover, author of Powerful and Feminine: How to Increase Your Magnetic Presence and Attract the Attention you Want (Fort Collins, Colo.: Deep Pacific Press, 2011).