In Electric Company- Achieving higher levels of intimacy with Body Electric
It’s not easy for most, stripping down to your birthday suit with a group of strangers. 
”It was very uncomfortable for about 10 minutes,” says Marlon Fixico, 51, a gay Washingtonian, discussing the first time he took part in a Body Electric workshop. That was back in 1995.
”There’s only so long you can look at a dick until they all look the same,” he says. “I mean in different shapes.”
For those unfamiliar with Body Electric, it’s a weekend workshop available to D.C.-area men 18 and older at a residence in West Virginia. It will be held from May 15 to 17 and costs $595 (including room and board). Fixico, who’s helping to coordinate this year’s event, describes it as an ”erotic, sexually healing workshop.”
Bob Findle, 51, owner and school director of the Oakland, Calif.-based Body Electric School, says it originally started as a massage school, but shifted gears toward a more erotic offering in the ’80s when the AIDS epidemic first hit.
”Body Electric did arise out of those years when people were totally terrified to even breathe on one another,” Findle says. ”Now we’re much smarter, [but] we still have the same goal, which is to help men and women achieve levels of intimacy and connection that they may not be able to do and be erotic with one another.” Read Full Article
Body of Knowledge – Erotic massage aims to teach the intimacy often missing in sex
Friday, Mar 27, 2009 | By: MATT SCHAFER | COMMENTS | 
Having a sexual relationship with someone doesn’t mean there is an intimate bond.
“Usually people think they can achieve intimacy through porn star sex, but that’s not typically how it works,” says sex expert Michael Alvear. Alvear, who is gay, gets thousands of questions sent his way as part of his “Need Wood” column in David Atlanta magazine and his blog at mikealvear.com.
“People don’t usually ask about how can I be more intimate with my partner, it’s, ‘How can I be closer to my partner?’” he says.
Bob Findle, the owner of the Body Electric School, is working to change the way men love each other.
“A lot of time the focus is put on penetration,” Findle says. “And after that what happens? You roll over and go to sleep.”
Findle’s school aims to teach men how to become better lovers, more intimate partners and more self-aware individuals through classes in erotic massage.
Celebrating the Body Erotic with Body Electric October 17th and 18th 2009I
As the local coordinator I wanted to invite you to attend the work of BE. The next local workshop will be held October 17-18th 2009 . For more information please visit the website BodyElectric and then give me a call.
A first step in your exploration into your erotic potential. CBE involves the mind, the body and the heart in a series of exercises that use breathing, stretching and touching. Many men are searching for a more meaningful connection to themselves and to others. When they take responsibility for their erotic education, they realize how much there is to learn about awakening the erotic energy that lies within all of us. They begin to realize the satisfaction that comes from learning how to both give and receive pleasure. The workshop focuses on the entire body and is conducted in a setting that is playful, safe and honoring. The benefits of this work are:
- The participant gains greater acceptance of himself as an erotic being,
both physically and mentally. - He discovers ways to develop a more satisfying erotic relationship with others.
- He becomes more aware of spiritual dimensions in his erotic explorations.
Celebrating the Body Erotic is a full two-day clothes-off workshop (9am-7pm) for those who are ready to vigorously explore new levels of feeling, both within themselves and within a community of men.
Living an electric life- Body Electric celebrates 25 years
by Jody Dalton