About Tantra Authority

Tantra Authority is published by The Naked Press, the home of Lawrence's body of work. We exist to lay out a particular tantric approach — body-grounded, anti-mythology, and unusual in that it treats the dismantling work as central to the practice itself, rather than as preparation for it.

Lawrence's approach

Lawrence grew up on the streets of New York and learned tantra at eleven. It has been a lifelong practice ever since — a mixture of the street and the wisdom traditions, of hard-won real life and devoted study. That blend is why the work sounds different from anything else out there: practical, unsentimental, and completely free of the costume.

Lawrence is a tantric rebel with zero allegiance to any mythology or belief system. The only question that interests him is the one most teachers skip: what actually works to make a person feel better, freer, more alive? Whatever doesn't serve that gets stripped away.

The teaching comes from openness — from breath, body, freedom, and space — created fresh each time rather than recited from a doctrine. Its whole aim is to dissolve the inherited shame, guilt, and limiting beliefs that stand between people and their own pleasure, and to point them somewhere simpler: toward play, toward ease, toward having fun in a body that was always built for it. No sandalwood required. No robes. No mythology. Just what's true, and what works.

We left the 1970s behind

Most of what gets sold as tantra is still running on the New Age software of the 1960s and '70s — the incense, the robes, the borrowed mythology, the gauzy promises. And the whole world has changed since then. You wouldn't make a call on a 1970s telephone. You upgrade your phone, you upgrade your computer — yet somehow no one upgrades the ideology. That is exactly what this is: an upgrade. The body hasn't changed, but everything we understand about it has — and the inherited beliefs that came bundled with the old practice can finally be cleared.

Human, not gendered

Almost everyone — men, women, every kind of human — comes to this work carrying the same quiet question: is something wrong with me? The answer is the same for all of them: you're built well, and you're in very good company. So this approach is human-based. It stays clear of the tired masculine/feminine polarity that so much tantra leans on — the "masculine energy / feminine energy" scripts that just hand people one more role to perform. Energy is fluid, and it's yours whatever your gender. You don't have to become more "feminine" or more "masculine" to come home to your body. You only have to be you.

What this approach adds (and what most tantric education leaves out)

Most modern tantra — and nearly every cult that borrows the name — stops at three things: breath, sound, and movement. Touch is barely mentioned; real energy work, almost never. Those three are good as far as they go, but on their own they leave practitioners going through the motions, because the practices land in bodies still running inherited beliefs, traumas, training, ideologies, and embedded patterns that block them. This approach teaches the two pieces they leave out too — touch and explicit energy work — and runs all of it alongside the dismantling.

The approach this site documents has two movements happening at the same time:

What you do — the body practices: breath, sound, vocalization, singing, dance, movement, touch, chant, focused attention, and explicit energy work. Not "energy" as metaphysical decoration — the felt, generated, moved, and redirected sensation in a body that is alive.

What you un-do — the dismantling: stripping off the beliefs, the traumas, the training, the conditioning, the ideologies, the ideals, the embedded patterns that prevent the practices from doing what they are built to do.

Both at once is the actual practice. The deliverable, in plain language: a conscious cock, a wide-open relaxed pussy, two bodies that finally know what they are for.

What this site is becoming

Tantra Authority is a hub. Articles are the front door, but the project is bigger than essays:

• Articles on the body practices, the dismantling work, energy work, ritual, shadow, ancient practice, modern neuroscience, and everything the marketing-driven Western tantra industry leaves out.
• A vetted practitioner directory — tantric teachers, somatic guides, breathwork facilitators, body-workers, ritualists, erotic-wellness coaches, erotic-hypnosis practitioners, erotic photographers and artists. Every listing comes with full transparency: their lineage, their training, their teachers, their cult associations (if any). The reader gets to make an informed choice for the first time. (Note: the directory does not list sex workers or transactional intimate services — the framework's commercial position is that platforms touching that territory carry FOSTA/regulatory risk we aren't taking on.)
• Vetted contributors — practitioners who write under their own name about their lane of the work. Lineage and credentials disclosed up front. No anonymous "Sex Coach" branding.
• Books from The Naked Press — the Beyond the Myth seven-volume series and beyond.
• The Naked Mind newsletter — Lawrence's longer essays on consciousness, sexuality, and the inherited frameworks that block both.
• Coaching — high-end work with Lawrence directly, by application. Not group programs. Not certification mills. Not weekend transformation theater.
• Workshops and retreats when the work calls for them. Honest pricing. No upsells. No "level two" pressure. The kind of weekends Lawrence used to run a decade ago — meditate, cook, laugh, do real work, go home changed.
• Tools — affiliate-curated sex toys, books from other authors when they earn it, recommended gear (lubes, anal toys, vibrators, fleshlights, etc.) with honest reviews and no kickback masquerading as recommendation.
• Etsy / print-on-demand goods — t-shirts, prints, posters with the imprint's voice. Lightweight monetization, brand spread.
• Hypnosis and erotic-hypnosis recordings — the deep-symbolic-brain work productized.
• AI tantric playmates (in development) — interactive practice partners powered by the corpus.

Money is honest. We charge for what costs us to make. The book industry alone doesn't pay; the multi-channel hub model does. None of it is sold via shame, fear, or "you need this to be whole." The reader is an adult and is treated like one — including in how the products and services are offered.

Our editorial position

• Body-grounded. If a claim can't be verified by a reader in their own body within a reasonable time, we don't make it.
• Anti-cult. Hostile to the patterns that turn tantric teachers into gurus and tantric students into followers. Including ours. Every listing in the directory discloses lineage and cult associations so the reader sees the structure before they engage.
• Plain language. Sanskrit only when no English equivalent exists. Physiological mechanisms named when they explain what's happening.
• Adult-respect. The reader is a competent adult capable of handling clear information about sexuality, anatomy, and the body. We do not soften, hedge, or moralize.
• Anti-mythology. Where a practice works, we explain why. Where the cultural story doesn't hold up, we say so.
• Money is honest. The work costs to make. Charging is part of the work, not a violation of it. We refuse the spiritual-teacher cliché that real teachers don't accept money — that lie is what produces the unpaid teacher who then secretly resents every student.

Our flagship book

The longer-form expression of this project is Beyond the Myth: The Definitive Guide to Modern Tantra, by Lawrence Lanoff, forthcoming from The Naked Press in 2026.

About The Naked Press

The Naked Press is the imprint Lawrence Lanoff founded to publish the Beyond the Myth book series — seven volumes covering tantric practice, energy work, open relationship structure, male and female sexuality, modern enlightenment, and sexual shadow. The work stripped of the mythology.

The companion publication is The Naked Mind, an essay newsletter on consciousness, sexuality, and the inherited frameworks that get in the way of both.

Contact

Editorial inquiries, press, practitioner-directory submissions, contributor pitches: use our submission form — every submission is read and routed to the editorial queue.