Clouds and Rain, Yin and Yang

In early Chinese literature, sexual acts had metaphorical terms. "Clouds" in literature referred to a woman's ova and vaginal secretions, while "rain" referred to a man's emission of semen.

The Chou dynasty (770BC to 222BC) had a Taoist doctrine although Taoism was not yet a formal religion. They divided men and women into the yin and the yang. Women were believed to have an unexhaustable supply of yin essence. While men had a limited supply of yang. It was forbidden for men to use up their yang essence without acquiring plenty of yin essence. Before a man was allowed to ejaculate, he had to prolong it, making a woman orgasm several times to acquire her yin essence. If a man ejaculated or used up his yang essence without taking any yin essence, the ancient Chinese believed it would cause health problems.


Masturbation by men was seen as unhealthy and forbidden, and believed to cause a complete loss of his vital yang essence. Women could masturbate freely as they were said to have an unlimited yin. Medical texts only warned women against masturbation with foreign objects which were believed to injure the womb and internal sexual organs. Nocturnal emissions or 'wet dreams' that men had were seen as a health problem for men.


During this time, female homosexuality was widespread, but male homosexuality was rare. Male homosexuality was forbidden because there would be a complete loss of yang essence on the part of both men. Since women were said to have an unlimited yin essence, there was no loss of yin in female to female relations. It was during the Han dynasty when male homosexuality figures reached the same standard as among other societies.


At that time, prostitution was accepted by the Chinese. Men thought that they could gain more yin from prostitutes than from normal women. They believed that since such women were with so many men, they acquired more yang essence from them, and could also give a patron more yang essence than he lost.

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