Better Than Chemo

Most people on the council estate in Yate, near Bristol, know him as a dishevelled looking man. But to his many devotees around the world he is a leading tantric sex guru, who claims he "heals" women of terminal diseases such as cancer by sleeping with them.

Apparently, it's difficult to believe that he has slept with around 2,000 women in a "career" spanning 40 years.

"People think I do this for pleasure. But I am not in this for the sex," he says, indignantly. "I sleep with women that other men would rather die than touch. They are middle-aged, often overweight and the least desirable, one was 25 stone and cross-eyed.

Men in the west have been brought up to believe they can't go on as long as women. But a tantric practitioner can have 10 orgasms one after another. It's not uncommon to have a nine-day tantric session

But he has problems with jealous husbands, especially in India where he needs 20 policemen to protect him from Hindu fundamentalists when he visits Delhi and Mumbai.