Afterwards
After any sex magick, ground down and release the energy. Help bring each other down. Snuggle, go out, or whatever else you like to do after sex. But let go of your symbol [if you were doing the "fuck and make a wish" type of magick]. If you keep thinking about it, you will be drawing energy away from it [and defeating your purpose]. It has to be fully released to go out and perform its task in the world.

Alternatives to Sex Magick
There are energy points all over the body - for example [or especially?], on the hands and feet. The chakras are the Yggdrasil or axis mundi of the body. But if you can't do sex magick [or don't want to], you can do some other body magick with the other energy points instead. Touching other parts can bring energy points together. Even just touching hands can be effective. 

[Not only genital sex, but] oral sex also is a good opportunity for magick. Talk with each other and tell your partner how to do you right. It's important to talk; otherwise your partner may have no way of knowing the best way. Whether as foreplay or as a separate activity, the one doing it transfers energy into the recipient's body.

Addenda; Miscellaneous Notes
Again, I've presented this from a heterosexual view, but everything applies just as well for two men or two women. More than two people at a time also can do sex magick. 

I've emphasized simultaneous orgasm as a goal, but it's not essential. You can do good sex magick without it. It's important not to worry too much about it [because that would be negative or distracting]. 

In fact, Tantric masters do much sex magick without having orgasm at all. in this way they preserve jing. In "fuck and make a wish" sex it is of course preferable to orgasm because that is the point where you release the symbol or wish. On the other hand, if you are doing the chakra-aligning, energy-building kind of sex magick, it can be desirable to send theenergy up to the top of the series of chakras but not all the way out; you approach orgasm but hold back. 

Some practitioners claim that a condom insulates the man from the woman in regard to energy transfer. I disagree. Spiritual energy is non-material and goes right through regardless of a condom. 

Sex magick can be used to purge bad emotion. But resolve the problems [in your relationship] first and then do sex magick; don't bring anything negative into your practice of magick. Thus, for example, you shoud not try magick in "make-up sex", but it's OK to use sex magick to purge negativity from past problems. 

There is much more beyond what is covered in this lecture, on positions and techniques, on Tantric theory, etc.. I'll conclude with remarks on some books... 

[At this point Kain briefly discussed and passed around some books on sex magick that he had brought and then concluded the lecture.]

[ancient Indian authors]. Kama Sutra.
"kama" = "love"; "sutra" = "teaching" or "book". This is the major ancient classic on sex. The Richard Burton translation is available online. H., a friend of PSA at the lecture, said that The Complete Kama Sutra is a good version. 

Margo Anand. The Art of Sexual Magick. Kain had some criticism of this book but said that it was basically a good one. 

Aleister Crowley. [titles = ?]. Kain said that Crowley was also a source on sex magick, but that his version is considered by some to be "warped".

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