Kama Sutra - a history for your information 211108
Discovering the Kama Sutra?
Of all the treasures and philosophies that were brought to Europe from the Far East, the Kama Sutra is perhaps one of! the best known, along with Buddhism and Yoga. Starting during the industrial revolution of the late 18th century and aided by the advent of tourism in the fashionable set, Europe and Northern America have been flooded with art, ideas and the philosophies of the Far East that changed, to a certain extent, our way of thinking.
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When mentioning Kama Sutra, most people conjure up images of an exotic help book about sexual satisfaction or an ancient porn magazine. The real name of the book is actually “Vatsyayana’s Aphorisms on Love” (“Vatsyayana Kamasutram”) and is comprised of 36 chapters that make up the treaty.
The central idea behind the collection of aphorisms is to provide a comprehensive guide to sexual etiquette, relationships with courtesans, courtship of married women, marriage and, finally means to improve one’s sexual prowess through the use of herbs, spells and sex toys. As you can see, the purpose of this book has become the definitive guide to what love and sex is to Indian society in 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 in their field covers a wide range of issues, such as observations on the daily life of a citizen, sexual positions, personal adornment, gaining the confidence of women through to how to correctly kiss and the means by which courtesans get money.
While the best known part of the book, the study of sex and sexual positions, makes up a mere 20 percent of the whole text. Those schoolers who are truly interested in sex should read the book in its entirety. And still after numerous centuries the ancient theisms ! are 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 is not fooling himself that men and women are naturally virtuous creatures and so was perfectly willing to give advice on how to seduce married women, just as Machiavelli knew that a prince is bound to do evil things from time to time.
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