Tantric

Fanfiction
Title:	Tantric
Author(s):	TBishop and Char Chaffin
Date(s):	February 2000
Length:
Genre:	MSR, het
Fandom:	X-Files
External Links:	at alt.tv.x-files.creative
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Tantric is a 2000 X-Files MSR fic by TBishop and Char Chaffin.

It was first posted to alt.tv.x-files.creative and then archived in other places, one being Xemplary (as per a note at the bottom of the Usenet postings). The authors also wrote: "Missing parts? Or want to read more of our stories? Go to our archive pages: The Literary G-Spot (T Bishop's archive) http://members.xoom.com/arcticfox42/Tbishop.htm http://tbishop.freeservers.com/ [and] Believe the Words (Char's archive) http://char.chaffin.com"

Believe the Words (Char's archive) http://char.chaffin.com .

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2000

Then there was the fic that ate your mailbox:

TANTRIC by Char Chaffin and TBishop.

After reading it, all the witches could think was:

“Either somebody’s got a new hobby or somebody got some sex books for Christmas!”

Synopsis: (to prove we read it)

17 couples have disappeared at a (SURPRISE!) Tantric sex resort in the Bahamas. As an excuse to get the characters to be along in an open atmosphere, the authors have Mulder accept the case and drag Scully along. They go “undercover” as a married couple for the seminar and after first fighting their instincts to boink like minks, guess what? They have sex! They have sex everywhere! And guess what again? It’s TANTRIC sex!

They shag and shag and shag and we discover in a weird twist that Scully, who up to now in the series, seems strong and in control, likes it when Mulder dominates her, ties her up and gets generally rough. In the first nine chapters, covering their first week at the resort, they do nothing but make the beast with two backs and attend live sex seminars demonstrating Tantric Techniques. (No, we’re not making this up.)

Part Two doesn’t get much better, as the Swami wants Moose and Squirrel to consider staying longer to become Swamis themselves. He believes they have the gift to fuck themselves straight to Nirvana. Scully gets all mystic on Mulder’s ass, embraces the philosophy in total. Mulder, in the meantime, inherits his mother’s estate and is a multi-millionaire. However, our heroes decided to further their training to “further the investigation” and go to a private island run by a shady, wife abusing guru. Mulder sees through him, but Scully takes a truckload of hallucinagens and is almost raped by the guy. He wants her to join his harem and asks her to sign over all her worldly possessions to his Church and stay on the island to achieve spiritual harmony.

Being totally out of character, she agrees! Mulder gets mad and protects her from the evil guru, who turns out to be a petty thug from Ohio named Vinny (because that’s what guys that go wrong from Ohio do, apparently). Scully learns some interesting techniques while whacked out of her head, Vinny kills his wife then tries to kill Mulder to keep Scully, his “red-headed woman”.

Needless to say, love conquers all, Vinny gets his come uppence and our heroes fly home, safe and sound. And best of all, Scully retains the ability to be able to deep-throat an entire penis and ball sac at the same time.

And no, we’re not making this up.

We couldn’t review it all for fear of going blind. If you want to read the whole thing, go here.

Tantric wasn’t the first controversial fic, where writers took a step back going, “uhmm… maybe we shouldn’t have”. Sarah Stegall’s The Sound of Windchimes was another one of them. #the x-files #fanfiction history

2016

Tantric was hugely popular when it came out, even I found it hot, back in the days when my level of English meant I wasn’t so discerning and my education on sensitive issues like using rape as a titillating plot device, still needed a lot of work. IIRC Char and Tess distanciated themselves from the story as years went by, probably realizing how problematic it was.