"In this scholarly and superbly readable book, one of the world's foremost authorities on ancient Indian texts seeks to restore the Kamasutra to its proper place in the Sanskrit canon, as a landmark of India's secular literature. In investigating, and helping us understand, a much celebrated but under-appreciated text, Wendy Doniger has produced a rich and compelling text of her own that will interest, delight, and surprise scholars and lay readers alike"--

An “enticing . . . elegant and stylish” biography of the ancient Hindu manuscript that became the world’s most famous sex manual (The New York Review of Books) The Kamasutra is one of the world’s best-known yet least understood texts, its title instantly familiar but its contents widely misconstrued as a how-to guide of acrobatic sexual techniques. Yet the book began its life in third-century India as something quite different: a vision of a life of urbane sophistication, with advice on matters from friendship to household decoration. Celebrated, then neglected, the Kamasutra was very nearly lost—until an outrageous adventurer brought it to the West, earning literary immortality. In lively, lucid prose, James McConnachie provides a rare look at the exquisite civilization that produced this cultural cornerstone. He details the quest of explorer Richard Burton, who—with his coterie of libertines—unleashed the Kamasutra on Victorian society as a slap at its prudishness. And he describes the Kamasutra’s exile to the pornographic underground, until the end of the Lady Chatterley obscenity ban thrust it once more into contentious daylight. The first work to tell the full story of the Kamasutra, The Book of Love explores how a way of looking at the world came to be cradled between book covers—and survived.

Based on the Ancient Indian Sex Manual, Here is Advice to Steam Up Any Bedroom and Spark Life into Any Romance—from Oral Sex to Sitting and Standing Positions to More Adventurous Positions like “The Propeller” and “The Rowing Boat” Sadie Cayman has taken the ancient Kama Sutra and given it a modern self-help feel. Designed to educate you as a lover and advance your lovemaking techniques beyond the basic and boring, this book is designed to make fantasies come true. Here are ways to bring passion to your bedroom (or any room with a chair or table). Positions are ranked for passion, drama, romance, exertion, convenience, and more. Experience: The Bent Kiss The Cap of Luxury The Flowing Triangle Nirvana Supernova The Curled Angel And, to spice things up, Cayman offers quotes and advice about romances and sex from Ingrid Bergman, the Marquis de Sade, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Deepak Chopra, and more. Tastefully illustrated in full color, and playfully written, this new handbook will bring your love life new excitement and challenges. You can offer your new lover or your long-term partner the most passionate, creative, and enthusiastic lovemaking he or she has ever had. You won’t have to fantasize any longer about what it’s like for a lover to thank you after sex. You’ll find out.

One of the best English translations of this ancient Indian treatise on politics, social mores, love, and intimacy are the Kama Sutra, which Mallanaga Vatsyayana wrote in the second century CE. Its clean presentation raised the bar for Sanskrit translation. The Kama Sutra is a unique combination of sexology, society, psychology. It has been hailed as a great work of Indian literature for more than 1,700 years and has served as a window for the West into the mysticism and culture of the East. The Kama Sutra, a prehistoric Indian literature, is regarded as the most important Sanskrit study of human sexuality. The Kama Sutra remains one of the most accessible and entertaining of all the ancient classics, having been written with frankness and unassuming simplicity. The Kama Sutra is so significant as a work of philosophy, psychology, sociology, theology, science, and sexology that it simultaneously had an impact on Indian civilization and remained a crucial component in understanding it.

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A new translation of the "Kama Sutra" reveals that it is not only a study of sexual pleasure, but also an inspirational guide that elevates the erotic experience to new heights.

"Previously published in the United States as Kama Sutra Step by Step, 2009"--P. 240.

The erotic sentiments described in the Hindu love classic the Kama Sutra constitute the most famous work on sex ever created. Written almost 2,000 years ago, the Kama Sutra deals with all aspects of sexual life, including the principles and techniques of sexual pleasure and how to best achieve ecstatic expression of life's beauty.

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