The Illustrated KamaSutra: The Most Complete Book with 69 Positions for Beginners and Experts

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a b Sushil Kumar De (1969). Ancient Indian Erotics and Erotic Literature. K.L. Mukhopadhyay. pp. 89–92. James Lochtefeld (2002), The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Rosen Publishing, New York, ISBN 0-8239-2287-1, pp 55–56 Coltrane, Scott (1998). Gender and families. Rowman & Littlefield. p.36. ISBN 9780803990364. Archived from the original on 30 April 2016 . Retrieved 15 November 2015. Varahamihira; M Ramakrishna Bhat (1996). Brhat Samhita of Varahamihira. Motilal Banarsidass. pp.720–721. ISBN 978-81-208-1060-0. Archived from the original on 9 January 2022 . Retrieved 27 November 2018. The Uncloak the Clitoris sex position is here to remind you that you’re never too cool for hand stuff. Another reminder: the vast majority of people with vulvas can’t orgasm from penetration alone (which is totally fine — and orgasm isn’t the point of good sex anyway!). But if you are looking to help your partner get off, keeping your hands free to give their clitoris some love is an expert move.

Albrecht Wezler (2002). Madhav Deshpande; Peter Edwin Hook (eds.). Indian Linguistic Studies: Festschrift in Honor of George Cardona. Motilal Banarsidass. pp.316–322 with footnotes. ISBN 978-81-208-1885-9. Archived from the original on 25 January 2022 . Retrieved 28 November 2018. Debra Laino, DHS is a sex therapist and the author of The Missing Link: A Fusion of Sexuality, Psychology, Lifespan Development and You. While it might be known to many people as a source of sexual positions, it's also a philosophical work that covers a lot more topics, including advice on love, relationships, family life, nature and the art of living well. The Kama Sutra is divided into 7 books, each dealing with a different aspect of life, love and sexuality. Jorge Ferrer, Transpersonal knowledge, in Transpersonal Knowing: Exploring the Horizon of Consciousness (editors: Hart et al.), ISBN 978-0-7914-4615-7, State University of New York Press, Chapter 10 Figuring out if someone is interested, conversations, prelude and preparation, touching each other, massage, embracing

But as in sex we also like to keep things fresh, there are moments and situations where roles are reversed and the dominant becomes dominated and vice versa. This can happen during the same session: each partner experiences a new role and new exciting sensations. Variations of the 69 positions include mutual anilingus or "double rimming", and digital penetration of either partner's anus or vagina. According to S.C. Upadhyaya, known for his 1961 scholarly study and a more accurate translation of the Kamasutra, there are issues with the manuscripts that have survived and the text likely underwent revisions over time. [53] This is confirmed by other 1st-millennium CE Hindu texts on kama that mention and cite the Kamasutra, but some of these quotations credited to the Kamasutra by these historic authors "are not to be found in the text of the Kamasutra" that have survived. [53] [54] Contents Tato známá poloha nedává spát mnoha milencům. Někteří ji zbožňují, jiní se jí obávají. Skvělá je především jako předehra samotného sexuálního aktu. Spočívá v tom, že muž leží na zádech, ideálně a hlavou podloženou polštářem. Žena si klekne nahoru tak, aby její klín směřoval k partnerovu obličeji. Sama se pak ústy stará o jeho penis, který má velice dobře dostupný. Poloha 39 Sexual relationships and the pleasure of sex, uniqueness of every lover, temperaments, sizes, endurance, foreplay, types of love and lovers, duration of sex, types of climax, intimacy, joy

So, if the Kama Sutra isn’t just the sexual playbook many sources in Western culture have touted it to be, then what exactly is it—and what can it teach us about sexuality, sensuality, and more? Below, experts explain what the ancient text is really all about. What is the Kama Sutra? Doniger and Sudhir Kakar published another translation in 2002, as a part of the Oxford World's Classics series. [108] Along with the translation, Doniger has published numerous articles and book chapters relating to the Kamasutra. [109] [110] [111] The Doniger translation and Kamasutra-related literature has both been praised and criticized. According to David Shulman, the Doniger translation "will change peoples' understanding of this book and of ancient India. Previous translations are hopelessly outdated, inadequate and misguided". [76] Narasingha Sil calls the Doniger's work as "another signature work of translation and exegesis of the much misunderstood and abused Hindu erotology". Her translation has the folksy, "twinkle prose", engaging style, and an original translation of the Sanskrit text. However, adds Sil, Doniger's work mixes her postmodern translation and interpretation of the text with her own "political and polemical" views. She makes sweeping generalizations and flippant insertions that are supported by neither the original text nor the weight of evidence in other related ancient and later Indian literature such as from the Bengal Renaissance movement – one of the scholarly specialty of Narasingha Sil. Doniger's presentation style titillates, yet some details misinform and parts of her interpretations are dubious, states Sil. [112] Reception Ahead of its time, the Kama Sutra offers some progressive perspectives on sexuality and love. The ancient text even teaches that men should prioritize a woman’s pleasure over their own, by focusing on making sure she climaxes before even thinking about their own orgasm. The Kama Sutra section on sexuality "was designed to teach a man how to make sure that the woman was fully pleasured," says sex expert Seema Anand, author of The Arts of Seduction. "They believed that if the woman was fully pleasured, sex would go on for longer in a marriage. It even says that if a man can pleasure a woman properly, his business will do better because she won’t spend your money needlessly, and that a man would even be a better warrior."Rocher, Ludo (1985). "The Kāmasūtra: Vātsyāyana's Attitude toward Dharma and Dharmaśāstra". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 105 (3): 521–523. doi: 10.2307/601526. JSTOR 601526. The first English translation of the Kama Sutra was privately printed in 1883 by the Orientalist Sir Richard Francis Burton. He did not translate it, but did edit it to suit the Victorian British attitudes. The unedited translation was produced by the Indian scholar Bhagwan Lal Indraji with the assistance of a student Shivaram Parshuram Bhide, under the guidance of Burton's friend, the Indian civil servant Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot. [99] According to Doniger, the Burton version is a "flawed English translation" but influential as modern translators and abridged versions of Kamasutra even in the Indian languages such as Hindi are re-translations of the Burton version, rather than the original Sanskrit manuscript. [97]

Other translations include those by Alain Daniélou ( The Complete Kama Sutra in 1994). [104] This translation, originally into French, and thence into English, featured the original text attributed to Vatsyayana, along with a medieval and a modern commentary. [105] Unlike the 1883 version, Daniélou's new translation preserves the numbered verse divisions of the original, and does not incorporate notes in the text. He includes English translations of two important commentaries, one by Jayamangala, and a more modern commentary by Devadatta Shastri, as endnotes. [105] Doniger questions the accuracy of Daniélou's translation, stating that he has freely reinterpreted the Kamasutra while disregarding the gender that is implicit in the Sanskrit words. He, at times, reverses the object and subject, making the woman the subject and man the object when the Kamasutra is explicitly stating the reverse. According to Doniger, "even this cryptic text [ Kamasutra] is not infinitely elastic" and such creative reinterpretations do not reflect the text. [106] The 3rd-century text includes a number of themes, including subjects such as flirting that resonate in the modern era context, states a New York Times review. [76] For example, it suggests that a young man seeking to attract a woman, should hold a party, and invite the guests to recite poetry. In the party, a poem should be read with parts missing, and the guests should compete to creatively complete the poem. [76] As another example, the Kamasutra suggests that the boy and the girl should go play together, such as swim in a river. The boy should dive into the water away from the girl he is interested in, then swim underwater to get close to her, emerge from the water and surprise her, touch her slightly and then dive again, away from her. [76] Kamasutra více než zřetelně ukazuje, že pouhý sexuální akt bez lásky, úcty a něhy není ničím víc než uspokojením pudů, podobně, jako se žíznivý člověk potřebuje napít vody. Správné pochopení umění lásky spočívá v tom druhého přijmout a milovat a teprve poté se ze vzájemné blízkosti a přitažlivosti mohou zrodit další plody takového vztahu, jako je nasycení sexuální touhy a extáze. V tomto smyslu by se člověk měl seznámit se všemi polohami kamasutry, které osvěží uvadající sexuální život a přinesou i plody vzájemné lásky, tedy děti. Jak lidé přistupují ke kamasutře v současnosti?

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Public women [prostitution], their life, what to expect and not, how to find them, regional practices, guarding and respecting them Indira Kapoor, a director of the International Planned Parenthood Foundation, states that the Kamasutra is a treatise on human sexual behavior and an ancient attempt to seriously study sexuality among other things. According to Kapoor, quotes Jyoti Puri, the attitude of contemporary Indians is markedly different, with misconceptions and expressions of embarrassment, rather than curiosity and pride, when faced with texts such as Kamasutra and amorous and erotic arts found in Hindu temples. [113] Kamasutra, states Kapoor, must be viewed as a means to discover and improve the "self-confidence and understanding of their bodies and feelings". [113]