Zeitgeist indicator The New York Times Styles Section has lately been fairly awesome in covering two subjects near and dear to my heart: mindfulness and female sexuality.  (Although in both cases – it’s kind of lame to call them ‘styles’.  Skinny jeans: a style.  Women enjoying sex? Hopefully not as temporary.  I’m just saying).
This week they profile the San Francisco, “One Taste Urban Retreat Center,” a center dedicated to what they call a ‘meditation’ that focuses specifically on bringing a woman to orgasm.
From the article:
At 7 a.m. each day, as the rest of America is eating Cheerios or trying to face gridlock without hyperventilating, about a dozen women, naked from the waist down, lie with eyes closed in a velvet-curtained room, while clothed men huddle over them, stroking them in a ritual known as orgasmic meditation — “OMing,” for short. The couples, who may or may not be romantically involved, call one another “research partners.”
Mindful sex is good.  I dare say it’s an important, fun way for a layperson Buddhist to, uh, practice.  And while the founder of One CityTaste has a Buddhist background, she doesn’t claim that OMing is dharmic.  I also really liked the report from the Silicon Valley engineer that participating at the center helped him concentrate better at work.  Sounds win-win.  Lastly and obviously, sex is potent, and all our potent experiences can be used for our life work toward awakening.
However if Julia May Jonas had a crystal ball, she would predict that in our catch-phrase-oriented culture, ‘meditation’ is going to start getting applied more and more to all sorts of activities that aren’t actually meditation.  Does it matter?  Should Buddhists let go of our terms?  Is this how the Puritans felt when Publick Occurrences started printing trend articles like, “Praeyer: Talking to G-d Myte Increafe Crop Size”?
Here’s a link to the article.  What do you all think?