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J Rogiere - Kama Sutra

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A modern interpretation of the classic erotic text, explicitly illustrated with photography throughout. The Kama Sutras revelations of the sensuous and erotic art of lovemaking have been unrivalled in the centuries since its creation. Here the key tenets of the Kama Sutra are re-interpreted for todays lovers. From getting into the mood with massage to an extensive range of imaginative, fulfilling positions this guide covers everything you need to transform your sex life and discover deep sensual and spiritual harmony. Explicit, specially commissioned photographs unlock the secrets of love positions and demonstrate creative erotic techniques. / Introducing the Kama Sutra - then and now / In the mood - from creating a sensual environment to erotic massage techniques / Foreplay - initiating the action. Where to start! way to go! / Positions / Fantasy / Going Further: Tantra - beyond sex

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If all science is founded more or less on a stratus of facts there can be no harm in making known to mankind generally certain matters intimately connected with their private, domestic and social life. Alas! complete ignorance of them has unfortunately wrecked many a man and many woman...

Preface to the original Burton translation of the Kama Sutra, 1883

Picture 14 Why learn about the Kama Sutra?

... while a little knowledge of a subject generally ignored by the masses would have enabled numbers of people to have understood many things which they believed to be quite incomprehensible, or which where not thought worthy of their consideration.

Preface to the original Burton translation of the Kama Sutra, 1883

Recently theres been an upsurge of interest in books, videos and courses describing the Kama Sutra and also tantric sex practices. So, what is it that these very ancient ideas have to offer us in the 21st century?

One answer may be that while our Western society inherited religious traditions in which the body and even sensuality were as seen as potentially shameful, the East celebrated these things. The good news for people wanting to see their sexual lives in a new way is that, through the Eastern traditions of tantra and the Kama Sutra, for the first time in a few millennia, sexuality is being seen in a positive, even spiritual, way. Sex is really coming out of the naughty closet.

Most of us would like to have an interesting and emotionally satisfying sex life. The fact is a lot of us dont. Surrounded by images of sex and sexuality in advertising, on TV and in film, many people find that sex is not the wonderful, exciting part of life that magazines, novels and the media suggest it ought to be. We may wonder why this is, or maybe we just put it to the back of our minds and get on with our day-to-day lives. However, if the sales of guides and handbooks to sex and sexual pleasure are anything to judge by, todays men and women want to change things for the better and this book will give you a great place to start.

The origin of the Kama Sutra The Kama Sutra reached the West through the work - photo 15

Picture 16 The origin of the Kama Sutra

The Kama Sutra reached the West through the work of 19th century British explorer and diplomat, Sir Richard Burton.

He had spent many years in India where he was shown ancient Indian erotic texts. He subsequently had these texts translated from the Sanskrit in which they were written and distributed them privately through the London Anthropological Society. Today, thanks to Sir Richard Burton and adventurers like him, anyone can access and enjoy texts like the Kama Sutra and benefit from the experience and wisdom of the East.

Picture 17 Is it really a sex guide?

So what is theKama Sutra?Kama Sutratranslates as rules of pleasure and its one of the earliest surviving examples of a lifestyle manual and sex guide. It is thought to have been written between the second and fourth centuries AD by the Hindu sage, Mallanaga Vatsyayana who drew on much earlier Kama Shastras or Rules of Love, some of them almost a thousand years old in his own time.

The book was intended as much more than just a sex guide as we understand it today it was a guide to a whole way of life. Contrary to what most people imagine, the Kama Sutra is not simply about exotic sexual positions but gives guidance on how a wealthy, middle-class man should live his life in the most general sense.

Man should practise Dharma Artha and Kama at different times and in such a - photo 18

Man ... should practise Dharma, Artha and Kama at different times and in such a manner that they may harmonise together and not clash in any way. Dharma is obedience to the command of the Shastras or Holy Writ of the Hindus Artha is the acquisition of arts, land, gold, cattle, wealth, equipages and friends Kama is the enjoyment of appropriate objects by the five senses of hearing feeling, seeing, tasting and smelling, assisted by the mind together with the soul.

The text has seven parts: general observations, how to make amorous advances, finding a wife, the duties and privileges of a wife, how to behave with other mens wives, information on consorting with courtesans and eunuchs, occult spells and rituals and a section on herbs and potions to promote libido and virility. The book covers everything the wealthy Hindu man might have needed to know about conducting his personal relationships nearly two millennia ago, but Vatsyayana makes it plain that Kama the pursuit of sensual pleasure comes after Artha and Dharma and that it is the harmonious balance of these three that results in a good life.

There are two main differences between the original Kama Sutra and modern texts. First, Vatsyayanas book was never meant as a manual for everyone; his readers were wealthy, urban men to whom he offered guidance on the social norms and sexual customs of the patriarchal North Indian society in which they lived. Secondly, as with the much later love and sex manuals the Ananga Ranga and the Perfumed Garden, the Kama Sutra described women and men as unequal partners socially and therefore sexually, something no modern writer of sex books could possibly do. But what Vatsyayana does do, which in western terms puts him nearly two millennia ahead of his time, is to place great emphasis on the equality of sexual pleasure between men and women, and the mans responsibility and duty to ensure that the womans pleasure is as great as his own. Vatsyayana also advises women to study the Kama Sutra, albeit privately, in order to learn how to present themselves, how to please their partner and even how to subject a man to their will. He clearly had a great respect and affection for high-class courtesans

a Ganika ... (is) always respected by the king and praised by learned men and her favour being sought for by all, she becomes an object of universal regard.

Picture 19 The Kama Sutra and spirituality

TheKama Sutradoesnt really address the spiritual aspects of sex between men and women in fact it might be more accurate to describe the

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