ISBN:
9780191001840
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (305 pages)
Series Statement:
Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.7
Keywords:
Love
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The Kamasutra is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of erotic love. About the art of living as well as about the positions in sexual intercourse, it is here newly translated into clear, vivid, sexually frank English together with three commentaries: excerpts from the earliest and most famous Sanskrit commentary (13th century), a twentieth-century Hindi commentary, and explanatory notes by the translators. The edition is enhanced by a selection of colour plates froman early edition of the work.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. The Text -- The Text and its Author(s) -- The Genre of the Kamasutra -- The Genders of the Kamasutra -- Psychology and Culture in the Kamasutra -- II. The Commentaries -- Yashodhara's Jayamangala -- Devadatta Shastri's Jaya -- III. Translations into European Languages -- Burton et al. -- Other Translations -- The Present Translation -- Sexually Explicit Vocabulary -- Contemporary Pleasures of the Text -- A Note on Presentation -- KAMASUTRA -- BOOK ONE: GENERAL OBSERVATIONS -- ONE: Summary of the Text [1] -- TWO: The Means of Achieving the Three Aims of Human Life [2] -- THREE: Exposition of the Arts [3] -- FOUR: The Lifestyle of the Man-about-town [4] -- FIVE: Reasons for Taking Another Man's Wife -- The Work of the Man's Male Helpers and Messengers [5] -- BOOK TWO: SEX -- ONE: Sexual Typology According to Size, Endurance, and Temperament [6] -- Types of Love [7] -- TWO: Ways of Embracing [8] -- THREE: Procedures of Kissing [9] -- FOUR: Types of Scratching with the Nails [10] -- FIVE: Ways of Biting [11] -- Customs from Different Regions [12] -- SIX: Varieties of Sexual Positions [13] -- Unusual Sexual Acts [14] -- SEVEN: Modes of Slapping [15] -- The Accompanying Moaning [16] -- EIGHT: The Woman Playing the Man's Part [17] -- A Man's Sexual Strokes [18] -- NINE Oral Sex [19] -- TEN: The Start and Finish of Sex [20] -- Different Kinds of Sex [21] -- Lovers' Quarrels [22] -- BOOK THREE: VIRGINS -- ONE: Courting the Girl [23] -- Making Alliances [24] -- TWO: Winning a Virgin's Trust [25] -- THREE: Making Advances to a Young Girl [26] -- Interpreting her Gestures and Signals [27] -- FOUR: The Advances that a Man Makes on his Own [28] -- The Advances that a Virgin Makes to the Man She Wants [29] -- The Advances that Win a Virgin [30] -- FIVE: Devious Devices for Weddings [31] -- BOOK FOUR: WIVES.
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