The Tantric Body: The Secret Tradition of Hindu Religion - Gavin Flood
Book is in like new condition, no writing and the stiff pages suggests that it's unread.
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It argues that within the different Hindu traditions, it is ritual and ascetic practice which fully explains corporeality. Without minimizing its sexual dimensions, Flood argues that the tantric body is more than just a sexual entity, and cannot be understood apart from the religious traditions and texts that give it form. Through ritual and yogic practice the body is formed into a pattern determined by these traditions, and the practitioner thereby strives to mold his or her life into the shape of the tradition"
(there is a much better more in-depth synopsis shown in one of the pictures on this listing.)