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The Complete Kama Sutra : The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text
by Mallanaga Vātsyāyana, Richard Francis Burton
by Mallanaga Vātsyāyana, Richard Francis Burton
You won’t find any picture there ;) Book describes social norms, custom behaviors related to sexual life, relationships between men and women. For us, living in Europe, in modern times, it’s rather a source of knowledge of different culture, or a comic book, not guidebook telling us how to live. I’m not a big fan of kidnapping women that don’t want to have a sexual relationship with a man or of a thought that my spouse will have few other wives and even more courtesans. In a very detailed way author describes kinds of kisses and intercourses (but as I said, no pictures), 64 arts that woman should know to please a man (eg.: how to teach a parrot to talk, how to play on glasses filled in with water, she should also know everything about cocks fights, tattooing, body piercing, gardening, making bouquets, not to mention such common things like singing and dancing to name only a few), how to gain a wife and how to treat other wives of a husband if you are one of many wives, rules during quarrel of lovers including what exactly should be said, where to look, how to move a head (eg. when a man wants to make his woman to explain why she is upset he needs to embrace her with his left (!) arm and starts a conversation that way and she should pretend that she wants to leave the room still being angry - a man should try to convince her to stay...), how to treat a courtesan and lot of other things that from my point of view are just funny. Anyhow, as it’s one of the most famous books of the world I think it’s worth to read it even if probably we won’t use any of author’s advices.
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