What is Kama Sutra?

[Anustha]

Kamasutra is the oldest surviving Hindu text on erotic love.[8] It is a sutra-genre text with terse aphoristic verses that have survived into the modern era with different bhasya (exposition and commentaries).

The text is a mix of prose and anustubh-meter poetry verses.

The text acknowledges the Hindu concept of Purusharthas, and lists desire, sexuality, and emotional fulfillment as one of the proper goals of life.

Its chapters discuss methods for courtship, training in the arts to be socially engaging, finding a partner, flirting, maintaining power in a married life, when and how to commit adultery, sexual positions, and other topics.[9] The majority of the book is about the philosophy and theory of love, what triggers desire, what sustains it, and how and when it is good or bad.

 

[Mrs Langtrees]

Great thread I have often wondered exactly what it means and now I know a lot more than i did before i read that...how do you get a copy of this text in English

 

[Crimson Idol No More]

I'm pretty sure Kama Sutra is a red hot ring stinger lentil & mung bean curry

 

[Tania Admin]

There are many books available out there. Google is your friend if wanting to purchase any books pertaining to The Kama Sutra

 

[Anustha]

Great thread I have often wondered exactly what it means and now I know a lot more than i did before i read that...how do you get a copy of this text in English

It is available in English Translation.

 

[dan60]

'The Perfumed Garden' 15th century

or even Marquis de Sade novels 18th century

 

[Tania Admin]

The Perfumed Garden
Just the title alone is delicious ❤

 

[Fat boy]

Link is broken so has been taken down

 

[Madmax1700]

I believe the word karma sutra is the ancient language of Sanskrit. It’s one of the most oldest languages. Most of the Buddhist teaching and the chants are in Sanskrit, karma derives the meaning “lust” and sutra derives the meaning “the art” in essence it gives the meaning “the art of lust”

 

[Osman]

This thread had me going through boxes until I found the book. A girlfriend bought me a copy of a book printed in 1995 in Hong Kong titled "Kama Sutra - an intimate photographic guide to the arts of love". It's a 143 page book with over 150 photographs and offers "an insight into a world of erotic pleasure". After leafing through the book - this was about 20 years ago - we found that it didn't really show us much we weren't already doing I think the joy of sex and the art of love making has come a long way in the past 20 years. Women are doing things now that men would only dream about back then.

 

[dan60]

after me and my girlfriend got the kama sutra book, we were able to make love on the kitchen table.
the table had one leg shorter than the rest, and the noise used to wake her parents up.
perfect fit (the book that is)

 

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