道教房中术与性科学

房中术是关于性技巧的男女合气之术,来源于古代的神仙方术,后来为道教所吸收,演变为一种男女双修的阴阳丹法。由于房中术存在的一些糟粕,被封建卫道者所斥,流于神秘化。实际上,如果对传统文化本着批判继承的态度,客观全面考察房中术的科学价值,重新认识和挖掘古老的房中术所包含的健康有益的性科学知识,则对于保持和谐的性生活和现代性科学的发展,具有十分宝贵的借鉴意义。

The Sex Arts in Taoism and sexology

The Sex Arts is a kind of sex theory for spouses concerning sex technique. It roots in the fairy arts in the ancient times. Later, Taoism absorbed it, and then turned it into a kind of method to make pills of immortality by sex. Because of some dregs in the Sex Arts, it was often scolded by feudalistic defenders. Gradually it tended to mystification. Actually, if we investigate objectively and roundly the scientific worth of the Sex Arts with the attitude of judgment and succession to the traditional culture, re- knowing and scooping out the healthy and beneficial knowledge of sexology contains in the ancient Sex Arts, it has many benefic meanings for keeping the harmonious sex life and the development of modern sexology.