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What is Yoga, Tantra, Homoerotic Tantra, and their importance to Mascul-IN-Touch?

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What is Yoga, Tantra , Homoerotic Tantra , and their importance to Mascul-IN-Touch? First of all, I must ask you to delete all you think you know about what yoga, Tantra , and homoeroticism are. I ask you to do this because what you think they are or what you have learned they are from the media is generally misinformed and erroneous. Most of what we in the West have been exposed to in the shape of Eastern spirituality is properly called New Age. New Age means a broad and frequently vague movement in Western culture characterized by alternative and sometimes bizarre approaches to traditional Eastern cultures, with an interest in spirituality, mysticism, religion, sex and sensuality, self-realization, etc. More narrowly, and in the context I am discussing here, “new age” refers to a range of spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in the West during the 1970s and onward. New age is basically an expression of a drive, a hunger that is not satisfied by the offer...