Slow Love: A Polynesian Pillow Book by James N. Powell

Slow Love: A Polynesian Pillow Book Reviews

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  Shane Briant

  “Love is the word, slow is the pace of such love. This book is both thoroughly charming, romantic as well as eloquently written. Not for those who have a penchant for B and D or rough sex; no hint of ‘wham, bang and thanks you ma’am here. No sir! This prose is for incurable romantics who enjoy spending long hours with their loves, tasting sexul dishes, those to be savored rather than gobbling down a quick snackeroo! I read Slow Love without stopping and I recommend it to all romantics and quiet hedonists.”
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  Lori

  We can all learn something eloquent and beautiful about love making from this book. Truly knowing and understanding your partner can make for a wonderful experience and the best way to know your partner is to first know yourself and only then can you be true with another.
  
  I really appreciate that Powell speaks of slowing everything down and really enjoying not only the motions but the emotions and to enjoy them means to go slowly.
  
  This is a beautiful book about love, understanding and loving not only the one you are with but yourself as well.
  
  
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  RevDrJude

  Have you heard of the Slow Food movement, where people get together and take time to prepare a lovely meal?
  This is slow love, where people take time to enjoy a gentle feast of passion.
  This is a beautiful, beautiful book, that can be read in one sitting or outloud to your partner over a lifetime.
  
  It's actually about how meditation can improve intimacy and love making.
  Of course, honest communication is also essential.
  
  I can certainly see why James N. Powell's writings have inspired a slow love, sexual revolution in Japan, now spreading worldwide.
  He's an expert in teachings of sacred sexuality from the traditions of Polynesia, China and India.
  He writes about Love in a warm, sensitive and caring way.
  
  I'm going to get down to the nitty, gritty and attempt to explain what I think he's talking about in my own words.
  There's two kinds of orgasm. An outy or an inny. I think women have mostly innys and men usually have outys.
  An outy is the typical ejaculative explosion. An inny is more intense, lasts longer and feels even better.
  An inny does not leave you exhausted and you can have more than one at a time.
  An inny builds energy inside of you and really charges that internal battery.
  Without calling it that, Powell gives easy to follow directions to have more innys and thus greater overall pleasure in your life.
  
  The next book by Powell on Polynesian Love is going to be written by readers responding to this book - another great idea!
  Visit his website, PolynesianLove.com!
  
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  Jaime Rush

  This is a great book! It's about the sensuality/sexuality of Polynesian cultures and how we can bring this into our own lives. James's writing is poetic and evokes vivid images of the islands and its peoples. He gives exercises to try that make it easy.
  
  My favorite line so far: "Simply by sensing your natural breathing you can become your own tropical island. For the waves of your breath gently kiss an inner shore--an inner paradise that is utterly silent and tranquil." I could totally see and feel this.
  
  I highly recommend it!
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  Lolly K Dandeneau

  Slow Love:A Polynesian Pillow Book is a beautiful book of love that transported me to a tropical paradise. To silence oneself and be still enough to be present in the moment of love for love’s sake and not just for the climax seems like common sense. How can one find true pleasure with their partner if you rush and treat your lover like a task to complete? We spend a lot of money on spiritual and self-help books not once considering sexuality can be spritiual too. If only the western world could take from the Polynesian culture the natural flow of sexual awakening and not make sexuality so clinical, cold (instilling an unnatural fear in the young) there would be less sexually confused, stunted people roaming around. The western world tends to see sex as something dirty and spends most of their time teaching it in scientific terms. It is important to understand the science of sexuality, but it doesn’t require killing off the spirituality and beauty of it as well.
  Powell's writing is more than a stop and smell the roses approach to lovemaking; it is a guide to opening your heart, knowing your desires and connecting with your partner on a deeper level. In Western Culture we are bombarded with ideals of what is sexy, what beauty should look like, that sex should be hard, fast and raw (if Hollywood is to be believed)and those very ideals are what damages the chance for loving freely. Slowing down and immersing yourself in the smells, the feel, the warmth of your partner, getting inside of their being(as close to the core of their soul) is the way to genuine love. The path to pleasure cannot be met with fear nor can it be found by rushing and missing all the beauty on the journey. We would all meet with wonder if we could slow down and experience the journey and not focus just on arrival and self. Love making for two is about pleasure for two and not just focusing on what you will get out of it to the detriment of your partner. It takes courage to open your heart, and this pillow book is a key to pleasure of the senses and the soul. Lovely.
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  Todd Fonseca

  Slow Love a Polynesian Pillow Book – Take Your Time and Enjoy One of Life’s Treasures!
  
  Rating: 4.5 of 5
  
  Author: James N. Powell
  Format: Paperback
  
  Imagine waking to the soft sounds of gentle waves rolling and crashing along a white sandy beach, crystal clear water, and food plentiful within a hands reach as a warm breeze caresses your skin. For some this sounds like a perfect vacation where one can unwind, relax, and escape from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. But what if this wasn’t a vacation? What if this is where you lived? Imagine a society raised isolated in paradise—no influence from the outside world and all around is beauty and the requisites for life are easily attained. Without the day to day struggles for survival, life for early Polynesians was one to be savored and not rushed. So too was their lovemaking.
  
  In Slow Love, James Powell does a masterful job at interweaving Polynesian myths with reality taking the reader on a journey through history of their land and society both before and after the influence from Western Europe. Throughout this journey, Powell informs on the techniques and benefits of taking one’s time while making love the Polynesian way. I didn’t expect but was pleasantly surprised not only by the rich cultural history provided by the book, but also the scientific explanations involving neurochemical reactions that can practitioners can benefit from leading to deeper, closer and lasting love between partners.
  
  Powell’s writing is fluid, refined, and engaging. Readers may find not only their views on lovemaking altered but perhaps their view on life as well.
  
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  Jamie

  I enjoyed Slow Love for the candid, sensible notion that sexuality in itself should not only be enjoyed, but become thoroughly savored as well. A good example of this slow savoring is when one places something sweet in the mouth and savors the tastes for the enjoyment, rather than scarfing it down in hunger. This book provides practical and thorough solutions for couples that are longing for the 'more' in the bedroom. Slow Love also compares our naturalistic state of mind to that of the Polynesian tribal Natives who are still embedded in the natural beauty of the earth. The beauty of nature shines in tribal peoples immersed nature because they are not yet encased in the modern sense of technology. It is proven that when modern man strays further from his natural state, he tends to forget what he was called to be. This state of naturalism is then forgotten in the purpose of making love in a savored manor, which we were made to do. Sexuality was made to enjoy, and to enjoy its beauty in slow passion.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  J.S. Chancellor

  Gorgeous, in-depth book on the art of loving your partner. I've never read anything like this--tender, yet descriptive enough for someone like me (who is a little slow on the uptake with instructional books). It would make a nice gift for the holidays, or birthday, assuming you've read it and are ready to "instruct" your partner as they read it too ;)
  
  James has a clear, fluid writing style that's more like poetry than prose. You get this feeling of being in the room with someone who has studied and spent time in meditative cultures and that this wisdom is being passed on to you. It was wonderful.
  
  
  
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  Laren

  Earlier I wrote: "I'm on page 107....Love what the author says about the ocean and breathing! Tides!
  Hello...it is now April 2011 and I confess I am starting over..from the beginning...this book is intense...I feel so shy about my feelings about this book..."
  But now I confess I am going to start over! Too much time has passed for there to be flow and this book is very oceanic with tides.. I want to begin again with the next new moon. Unless I cheat...
  
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  Justwin Nesianiono

  Read for the 7th time. Always get something new for knowledge. Who makes the rules for sex? Who sets the trend? Why do we follow the rules? So many ways to engage.
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  Moi-rrrrra

  Some valuable insights about the chemical nature of sex but mostly too woo-woo for my taste.
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  CrazyBitch santos

  this book was very crazy