Where Are They Now: Remember Barney the Dinosaur? Well the Guy Who Used to Play Him Now Runs a Tantric Sex Business
A full session with tantra massage specialist and spiritual healer David Joyner lasts three to four hours and costs $350. For that price, female clients—the only kind he accepts—can expect to receive a ritual bath, chakra balancing, and a massage. Also on the menu: cosmic, mind-blowing orgasms.
Today Joyner’s tantric massage practice boasts 30 clients—or “goddesses,” as he calls them—and he unblocks the energy of two to four women a week, he says. It’s a tad different than his work as a software analyst at Texas Instruments, a job he held for six years and landed shortly after graduating from ITT Technical Institute. But, Joyner says, his current work in tantra does share many similarities to another job he held from 1991 to 2001, that of Barney, the beloved purple dinosaur on the hit PBS children’s show Barney & Friends.
Alrighty then folks. Remember the old Barney song that became synonymous with the Big Purple Dino when we were young?
“I love you, you love me, we’re a happy family”
well that’s now turned into
“When the lingam [penis] and the yoni [vagina] meet, there’s a certain energy that takes place that hands on the body alone cannot create,”
How about this line from the guy who children grew to love and watch every morning?
“Before I got into the [Barney] costume, I would pray and ask God to allow his loving divine spirit to flow through me through the costume and let that draw the kids. That energy would always draw them in,”
Definitely not a creepy line at all…nope.
“Children are more connected spiritually than [adults]. A lot of times when I see infants and I’m out and about at the grocery store or whatever, they start staring at me. I make the joke, ‘You know who I am.’”
You know who I am? What the fuck does that mean? You’re known for being a big purple dinosaur. There’s no energy that’s gonna make a kid recognize you in a grocery store David Joyner. I’d mistake you for Damon from Shark Tank before I ever thought you were the man behind Barney during my childhood. Nightmare stuff,
From giant lovable purple dinosaur to a tantric sex massage guy. What a fucking world