A mum who was raped at 14 says her confidence was restored by the healing powers of tantric sex which she now teaches and swears by for its power to restore self-esteem to victims of sexual assault. When Jennifer Surch, 50, discovered tantric sex 20 years ago she says it finally helped her to reclaim the “sexual power” she lost when she was assaulted by a man in his 20s, who forcibly took her virginity when she was just 14.
Now married to fellow tantra follower, Tony Surch, 49, a construction worker, and living in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, with him and their children Danielle, 13, and Bradley, nine, she recalled the attack, saying: “That man held me down. I was just 14. He was in his late 20s. That was my first sexual experience.
“He heard my pain and my cries, heard me saying ‘no’ and he carried on. I felt so very alone. The philosophy of tantra is that your body is your temple. My temple had been broken into so many times. But through tantra, finally, I learned to value it.”
