Kama Sutra Expert: The Step-By-Step Book of Bliss

242 Pages·2015·59.26 MB·English

Experience every position...
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Contents
Introduction 6
Sensuous Seduction
10
Smooth moves and sensuous caresses to
entice your lover into your arms
Intimate Union
26
Sensual positions for long, romantic sessions
by the fireside or in the bedroom
Passionate Adventures
104
Lustful positions for when you and your
lover are super-hot and insatiable
Erotic Expertise
184
Scorchingly hot, deeply difficult, and wildly
filthy positions for sexual adventurers
Index 236
Acknowledgments 240
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6 Introduction
Introduction
Erotic, exotic, and acrobatic, the jaw-dropping, joint-cracking sex positions of the Kama Sutra
have enthralled readers for centuries. But behind the sexual gymnastics, the book itself is
filled with ancient sexual wisdom that will benefit any couple.
What is the Kama Sutra? 15th century by Kalyana Malla. It was intended to “prevent
The original Kama Sutra was written in 3rd-century India lives and loves being wasted” due to ignorance of the divine
by a man known as Vatsyayana Malla. It had no pictures pleasures of the arts of love. The Perfumed Garden came from
and the text appeared in Sanskrit “sutras”: short, pithy 16th-century Tunis and was written by Sheik Nefzawi, to
phrases that were designed to be memorized. Little is encourage sexual satisfaction, and hence fidelity, in the
known about Vatsyayana, but he was eager to establish his married couples of the kingdom. Positions from both titles
squeaky-clean motives, saying that he composed the Kama appear in this book, along with some from The Tao, a series
Sutra “in chastity and in the highest meditation.” of ancient Chinese pillow books.
More is known about the two British men who picked The generally more open and relaxed sexual climate of the
up the Kama Sutra in the 19th century and set about getting 1960s meant that the Kama Sutra could finally come out of
it translated into English. Their names were Sir Richard hiding, and people have been happily bending themselves
Francis Burton and Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot, and their into its sexual knots ever since.
translation revived modern interest in the ancient text.
Burton was an explorer, writer, and soldier. Arbuthnot was the unseen Kama Sutra
an ex-civil servant and translator. Their mission was to Despite its worldwide reputation for exotic and saucy sex
bring the erotic wisdom of the East to Victorian England; positions, the Kama Sutra isn’t all about sex. It consists of
no easy task given the repressive attitudes of the time. seven books, only one of which discusses sex in detail.
As Burton and Fitzgerald were aware, the Kama Sutra was not The other six books have nothing to do with the nitty-gritty
the only sex manual to come out of Asia over the centuries. of sex. Instead, they describe how men and women should
The Ananga Ranga is another Indian love text, written in the behave in sexual and romantic relationships. Vatsyayana
“Kama is the enjoyment of appropriate objects by the five senses of hearing, feeling,
seeing, tasting, and smelling, assisted by the mind together with the soul.”
Kama Sutra
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8 Introduction
dispenses lengthy advice to men on how they should Vatsyayana also gives the thumbs-up to husbands having
attract a woman, especially a virgin (the whole of book multiple wives, mistresses, and concubines. But, as always
three), and how to manage her once she’s been snared. in the Kama Sutra, lovers must abide by the rule book:
Women are furnished with instructions on their correct
conduct as wives, courtesans, members of the harem, “Whatever love-play one woman favors, or whatever peculiarity
and romantic gossipers and go-betweens. her body may have, or whatever reproach she lets slip during
pillow talk—he must not tell that to the other women.”
Simply being good in bed wasn’t enough in Vatsyayana’s
eyes. Along with the Kama Sutra, 64 other fine arts should Toys, props, and potions
be studied. These include: preparing wines, fruit juices, The Kama Sutra isn’t averse to a little artificial help in the
and other drinks; teaching parrots and mynah birds to quest for great sex. For men who can’t satisfy their lovers,
talk; knowledge of omens; carpentry; sleight of hand; Vatsyayana recommends the aid of a dildo made of gold,
improvising poetry; dancing; cutting leaves into shapes; silver, copper, iron, ivory, or buffalo horn. Alternatively, a
and rubbing, massaging, and hairdressing. If you want man can attach a well-greased cucumber, lotus stalk, or
to be an accomplished lover, ancient Indian-style, the bamboo stalk to his hips and use that as a penis substitute
Kama Sutra book one contains the full instructions. during intercourse with his (presumably long-suffering)
wife. And if a man wants to increase the size of his member,
Whether it’s luring a virgin into bed or visiting a harem, he need only rub it with insect bristles, massage it with oil
very few sexual deeds and misdeeds are frowned upon in for 10 nights, and wait for it to swell. Oh yes, then lie face-
the Kama Sutra. It’s even OK for a man to steal another man’s down on a bed and dangle his penis through a hole cut
wife. More than OK in fact; Vatsyayana lists the reasons a especially for the purpose.
married woman might resist a suitor (understandable ones
such as love for her husband, regard for her children, or Potions can also help you to procure a lover. Vatsyayana
contempt for the suitor… ), then offers men instructions recommends ointments and powders (even eye make-up)
on how to quash each one of these reasons. Here’s how a made from hogweed, clarified butter, wild ginger, and
man should snare a married woman: blue lotus leaves to help the cause. These “erotic esoterica”
are listed at the end of the Kama Sutra as an appendix of
“He gazes at her constantly… When she is looking at him he should back-up techniques to be used when all else fails. As
speak to his friends about her… Then within her hearing, and Vatsyayana says: “A person who has not obtained the object
without looking at her at all, he talks about the Kama Sutra.” of their desires may have recourse to these secret recipes.”
“Sexual intercourse being a thing dependent on man and woman requires
the application of proper means…”
Kama SuTra
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