maithuna

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit मैथुन (maithuna).

Noun

maithuna (uncountable)

  1. tantric sexual union
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 21:
      In Tantric intercourse, or maithuna, neither the man nor the woman is on the bottom in the sense of inferiority, but both sit in equality, face to face.
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