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Till date, the books by Sir John George Woodroffe are the most relied upon texts written in English for tantra sadhana enthusiasts.

For good reasons, tantra often stands at the center of debates about cultural appropriation and the commodification of religious practices. Through nineteenth-century orientalist studies and missionary polemics, it became associated with sexual licentiousness and abhorrent rituals before it was refashioned as a way to sexual liberation and individual freedom.