Perhaps steamy visions of an erotic ancient world
were couples experience the magical powers of sex in bizarre sexual
exploits.
Hopefully, in this article, you will discover that the Kama
Sutra is much more than just a book on sex positions.
In fact only 20% of the original text is dedicated to sex
positions!
There is an important lesson in this book that is often
neglected by popular media.
More than just a pillow book, the Kama Sutra is an extensive
guide to the labyrinth of sexual etiquette for both an ancient and
modern world.
It contains detailed steps from:
How to bathe before meeting a lover
How lovers should entertain each other after making love
Admittedly, the original text is dated and culture-bound in places.
Also, be WARNED it can be also very:
Chauvinistic
Bizarre
Violent
If you are serious about wanting to learn more about the Kama Sutra
and how to to apply time-tested techniques to your sex life you
can download
the orginal transciption from this website.
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Loving Passion for 100 years
However, the continued fascination of this sex manual is a testimony
to its current relevance to the western world.
To the modern women the Kama Sutra can be a valuable guide to establishing
how sexuality can be a way of life - it speaks to issues of sexuality
beyond the acts of sex.
When you read the Kama Sutra and do not focus on accomplishing
distorted poses, as if they were athletic feats almost every woman
at any age can increase her capacity for sexual fulfillment.
Of course better sex is a very welcomed outcome when learning about
the Kama Sutra.
But more importantly it speaks to the necessary "relationship
dynamic" between a woman and man to create a lifetime of passion
and love.
"Thus if men and women act according to each others liking,
their love for each other will not be lessened even in one hundred
years!" [1] Part 2, Chapter IV
Devadatta Shastri, a modern translator of the Kama Sutra describe
the outcome that results from the successful practice of the philosophy:
"At the moment when the peak of bliss is attained, the
internal and external world vanish. The man and woman cease to
be separate entities and lose themselves in the beatitudes of
being."
Devadatta Shastri encourages readers to emphasize:
Pressure points
Manners
Artistic freedom
Finding and pursuing a loving sexual relationship rather than
an overly choreographed one
Written for a Man, Designed for A Woman
Although the Kama Sutra was written for men, it was really designed
for the benefit of women!
The Kama Sutra is organized in 7 Parts, 36 Chapters,
64 Paragraphs that track men through life.
In Part 1, the bachelor sets-up his pad.
In Part 2, he perfects his sexual techniques. This is the book
that has inspired the modern Kama Sutra industry of how-to: books,
videos, games and everything else that under the banner of the
Kama Sutra.
In Part 3, our young man seduces a virgin
In Part 4, he marries and sets-up a household for his wife and
servants.
Part 5, he has grown sexually bored with his wife, and turns
to seducing other men's wives.
Part 6, Eventually, as he ages, the effort necessary for such
extra-martial activity loses its appeal, so in he takes up with
courtesans, who work to please him - but for a price.
Part 7 Finally, in old age, he fears he is losing his potency
and attractiveness, so contains recipes for herbal potions to
preserve them.
In Part 2, women are acknowledged as active vivacious partners
in sex and demands that men earn ejaculatory control so to last
long enough to bring his partner to orgasm:
"Females do not emit as males do. The males simply remove
their desires, while the females, from their consciousness of
desire, feel a certain kind of pleasure, which gives them satisfaction,
but it is not impossible for them to tell you what kind of pleasure
they feel. The fact from which this becomes evident is, that males,
when engaged in coition, cease of themselves after emission, and
are satisfied, but it is not so with females." [1] Part
2 Chapter I
Apparently, Vatsyayana the great sexual author of the Kama Sutra
didn't know that many women simply do not reach orgasm solely from
intercourse no matter how long it lasts.
A good example of the roots of a modern myth that is over 1,500
years old!
Nonetheless, the Kama Sutra is very attentive to women's
pleasure, a view that arrived in our culture only a few decades
ago (read more in Sexual Success Article),
and a view that is still lost on many men!
Similar to many ancient Eastern sex manuals, Part 2 instructs men
to treat women in such a way:
"that she achieves her sexual climax first."
It also instructs men what to observe if his partner is satisfied
or is not satisfied and what to do about it!
4
Signs of a Woman's Sexual Satisfaction
[1] Part 2 Chapter VII
6
Signs of a Woman's Sexual DIS-Satisfaction
[1] Part 2 Chapter VII
How Can a Man Learn to Please A Woman?
The answer given 1,500 years ago in the Kama Sutra was to become:
Knowledgeable about the arts of sexual pleasure
Become proficient in the arts of sexual pleasure
The most important lesson in Part 2 , for both women and
men, is that no two women are alike in their pathway to sexual pleasure.
"Men who are well acquainted with the art of love are
well aware how often one woman differs from another in her sighs
and sounds during the time of congress.
Some women:
Like to be talked to in the most loving way
Others in the most lustful way
Others in the most abusive way, and so on
Some women enjoy themselves with:
Closed eyes in silence
Others make a great noise over it
Some almost faint away
The great art is to ascertain what gives them the greatest
pleasure, and what specialties they like best. " [1] Part
2 Chapter VII
This simple truth has not changed in thousands of years - the critical
message for modern women to is to surrender the worries if they
are sexually "normal".
Creating a Sexual Match: Are You and Your
Partner a Good Fit?
The Kama Sutra opens Part 2 with specific detail about the matching
sexual partners by 3 factors:
Dimension of Sexual Organs ( 3 types for male and female genital
size and depth, respectively)
Force of Passion ( 3 types based on levels of desire)
Time to Satisfaction ( 3 types based on ease to orgasm)
While the instruction is to find an optimal match, the more important
lesson is the ability to understand how you and your partner "match"
sexually.
Understanding, your sexual fit will allow you to make better choices
on what positions are best suited to maximize pleasure.
The art of sex in the Kama Sutra always points back to the ability
to read and respond to your partner.
It does not prescribe a single recipes for sexual satisfaction.
The 4-4 Step an Ancient Foreplay Dance
for Better Sex
By following Part 2's extensive discussion of the fine points of
what today we called "foreplay" a couple can deeper their
knowledge of the basic steps to the art of lovemaking:
Embracing (4 types)
Kissing (7 types)
Biting (8 types)
Pressing (8 types)
In addition to the basic 4 steps there other variations of touch
calculated to heighten sexual arousal.
The "Kama Sutra" gets a little wild and kinky by today's
standard as it touts:
Slapping
Spanking
Scratching
Biting
with accompanying sexual sounds of shrieks and moans !
"There are no keener means of increasing passion
than acts inflicted by tooth and nail."
The Kama Sutra even gives praises of scars caused by erotic scratching.
It considers them advertisements of erotic prowess:
"Passion and respect arise in a man who sees from a distance
a young girl with the marks of nails cut into her breasts."
Book 2 of the Kama Sutra also advocates use of sex toys,
and suggests sex while bathing.
It also describes how:
A man can best satisfy 2 women at the same time (fondle
one while having intercourse with the other)
how two or more men should comport themselves when sexually
sharing one woman (take turns having intercourse, and while one
is inside her, the others should fondle her)
Book 3 tells virgins how to attract husbands.
Book 4 instructs women how to be good wives.
Book 6 deals with the skills required of courtesans - including
how they should provide for their own old age by stealing from their
patrons.
This information to speaks directly to women does not seem odd until
you realize that in fourth century India, few if any women could
read.
In Part 1, Vatsyayana, openly directs both men and women to study,
but he also acknowledges that many of his peers objected to permitting
women to study the Kama Sutra.
In the end, the Kama Sutra describes a highly sexual world, one
that celebrates unbridled pleasure. It prefers to view pleasure
as path rather than end to itself.
It's a sexual world committed to erotic tenderness, yet
capable of casual cruelty, a lusty world that venerated sex for
its own sake, not just for procreation.
Ultimately, the Kama Sutra is an modern attitude born in an ancient
world.