There is no denying that William Broad’s tactic of tweaking the lowest common denominator in search of publicity hit the mark once again. His latest NYT article “Yoga and Sex Scandals: No Surprise Here” caused an uproar when he asked in the face of yoga mogul John Friend’s dizzying fall from grace — why yoga produces so many philanderers?
Chiding the yoga community for seldom mentioning that the discipline began as a sex cult, he goads,“ this is hardly the first time that yoga’s enlightened facade has been cracked by sexual scandal…so why does the resulting uproars leave so many people shocked and distraught?”
Which quite frankly, is what I’ve wondered myself. Because who cares about Friend or any other guru’s moral failings, they’re human after all. I don’t understand why Friend’s sexual trysts are seen as an assault on the holy edifice of yoga. Why do we let Broad get under our skin?
While I get why influential yoga bloggers such as YogaDork and Roseanne Harvey rushed in to trounce Broad’s claims linking yoga with philandering as “simplistic and irresponsible” and “idiotic’ – what I don’t understand is the growing undercurrent of hysteria being exhibited around the topic of yoga and sex.
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