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Sunday, March 1, 2009

Karma Sutra



Karma Sutra originally known as Kama Shastra, is an ancient Indian text written by an Indian scholar Vatsyayana sometime between the first and sixth century A.D. on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature. Karma means sexual pleasure while Sutra is the guidelines of yoga.

The Karma Sutra promotes intimacy between partners, attention to mood, atmosphere and the senses. The Karma Sutra is not a pornographic work but a picture of the art of living for the civilised and refined citizen, completing in the sphere of love, eroticism and the pleasures of life.
The contents of the book are structured into 7 parts like the following:

1) Introductory

2) On sexual union – stimulates on desires, types of embraces, caressing and kisses, marking with nails, biting and marking with teeth, on copulation (positions), slapping by hand and corresponding moaning, virile behavior in women, superior coition and oral sex, preludes and conclusions to the game of love. It describes 64 types of sexual acts (10 chapters)

3) About the acquisition of a wife – forms of marriage, relaxing the girl, obtaining the girl, managing alone, union by marriage (5 chapters)

4) About a wife (2 chapters)

5) About other wives – behavior of woman and man, how to get acquainted, examination of sentiments, the task of go between, the king’s pleasures, behaviors in the women’s quarters (6 chapters)

6) About courtesans - advices on the choice of lovers, looking for a steady lover, ways of making money, renewing friendship with a former lover, occasional profits, profits and losses (6 chapters).

7) How to attract others – improving physical attractions, arousing a weakened sexual power (2 chapters)

* Coming up next - Positions of Karma Sutra *

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