Kamasutra by Vatsyayanana translated
Largely known as the best essay regarding love-making, and an inspiration for writers, essayists of all the times, this book was released in the III century Before Christ. The author Mallanaga Vatsyayanana had taken the best of the literature released regarding sex, putting down a soum of all of it that it is absolutely fascinating and under many ways, old-fashioned.
The importance of courting properly, gifts and sexual rituals, passing also through the activity of prostitutes and modality for increasing their business, without forgetting the harem and the general guidelines that were imposed to all the women accepted or invited there.
Sex is incredibly important and it is at the third place in that pyramid of values of the indian society; the first one is spirituality in a word, the second, business and practical existence, and the third one the joys of sex.
Although at that time women lived in a perennial sudditance, you will notice that they are an active and crucial part of the process of court, and later, love-making. Indian men didn't search just for a doll but they wanted someone in grade of satisfying their most hidden desires. Not only: they had to guess what a woman would have appreciated sensually and sexually.
Men could court also married ladies, because it was part of the process of personal growth and changement.
As you will notice each Indian place had its own way of courting or special positions for the love-making and it could be also pretty different from other parts of the country as well, like also ethically some kind of sex needed to be avoided or anyway not practiced with everyone.
Highly recommended.
I thank Marsilio for the physical copy of this book.
Anna Maria Polidori
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