Kama Sutra Fact of Fiction?

Of all the philosophies and ways of life that have filtered from the Far East to western consciousness, the Kama Sutra is perhaps one of the best known, up there with Yoga and Buddhism. Starting in the late 18th century and travelling abroad becoming popular, Europe and Northern America have been flooded with art treasures, ideas, and philosophies from the Far East that have changed, to a certain extent, our way of thinking.

Busy Westerners obsessed with the here and now are fascinated and intrigued by the attitudes of people who are content to live one day at a time and who are not afraid of the future.

When mentioning Kama Sutra, most people think of it as an exotic help book on sexual satisfaction or just an ancient porn magazine. The complete name of the book is actually “Vatsyayana’s Aphorisms on Love” (“Vatsyayana Kamasutram”) and it’s a treaty made of 36 chapters.

The aim of this collection of aphorisms is to provide a comprehensive guide to sex, relationships with courtesans, courtship of married women, marriage and, finally, improving one’s chances to have good sex through the use of herbs, substances, spells and sex toys. As you can see, the purpose of this book was to become a definitive guide to what love and sex meant to the Indian society around the 4th century AD.

Apart from sex and courtly etiquette “Aphorisms on Love” is a very orthodox book, designed for the society that spawned it. Its purpose was to teach the lover what should be done in order to woo the woman he desires while protecting both of their good names and reputation. Reputation was important throughout the ancient world, not just in! India, and if a person forfeited it for such a trivial thing as sex was considered to be frivolous, making the person not worthy of the esteem of others. Vatsyayana himself, a celibate scholar, believed that sex while not bad in itself; the act of engaging in it was certainly frivolous and sinful.

The 36 chapters are each written by an expert of the issue and cover a wide range of issues, such as observations on the daily life of a citizen, sex positions, personal adornment, how to kiss, gaining the confidence of women and the means by which courtesans get money.

The best known part of the book, the study of sex and sexual positions, makes up only about 20 percent of the whole text. Nevertheless, those who are truly interested in sex should read the entire book. After numerous centuries the ancient theory is still surprisingly accurate because people still want the same basic things from one another.

Although this may sound very unlikely, at the bottom Kama Sutra is somewhat akin to Machiavelli’s “The Prince”, although the Indian book on love is much more careful to observe the morals of the time. Both books are guides to some of the aspects of their respective societies and both deal with them in a frank and realistic manner.

Vatsyayana was not fooling himself with the idea that men and women are virtuous creatures by nature and was perfectly willing to advice men on how to seduce married women, while Machiavelli knew that a prince will do evil things from time to time.

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