Battles on Satin Sheets: Holiness, Eros and the Flesh in China

Chinese erotology is not a form of achieving pleasure, nor a method of refined sexual practice. Above all, it is a way to attain mystical illumination—absolute enlightenment, prolonging life, and even immortality. Choosing a partner is akin to selecting an ingredient for a healing remedy and a pill of immortality. For the first time in Russian, a complete presentation of the art of Chinese mystical erotology is provided, along with excerpts from more than 20 treatises on the “art of inner chambers” (category 18+). Aleksey Alexandrovich Maslov—one of Russia’s leading sinologists, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor at NRU HSE and several European and Chinese universities—studied in various schools of Buddhist and spiritual traditions in China.