Author : Eleanor McKenzie
Publisher : Quiver
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 10,6 MB
Release : 2005-02-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781592331055
A beautifully illustrated guide to the kama sutra with 52 positions, one to practice each week of the year! With all-new original photography, this book is bound to be a successful addition to your sex library.
Author : Vatsyayana
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,52 MB
Release : 2022-03-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781458331090
The Kama Sutra The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Sanskrit text on sexuality, eroticism and emotional fulfillment in life. Attributed to Vātsyāyana, the Kama Sutra is neither exclusively nor predominantly a sex manual on sex positions, but written as a guide to the "art-of-living" well, the nature of love, finding a life partner, maintaining one's love life, and other aspects pertaining to pleasure-oriented faculties of human life.Kamasutra is the oldest surviving Hindu text on erotic love. 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. 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.The text is one of many Indian texts on Kama Shastra. It is a much-translated work in Indian and non-Indian languages. The Kamasutra has influenced many secondary texts that followed after the 4th-century CE, as well as the Indian arts as exemplified by the pervasive presence Kama-related reliefs and sculpture in old Hindu temples. Of these, the Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh is a UNESCO world heritage site. Among the surviving temples in north India, one in Rajasthan sculpts all the major chapters and sexual positions to illustrate the Kamasutra. According to Wendy Doniger, the Kamasutra became "one of the most pirated books in English language" soon after it was published in 1883 by Richard Burton. This first European edition by Burton does not faithfully reflect much in the Kamasutra because he revised the collaborative translation by Bhagavanlal Indrajit and Shivaram Parashuram Bhide with Forster Arbuthnot to suit 19th-century Victorian tastes.
Author : Wendy Doniger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0190499281
"In this scholarly and superbly readable book, one of the world's foremost authorities on ancient Indian texts seeks to restore the Kamasutra to its proper place in the Sanskrit canon, as a landmark of India's secular literature. In investigating, and helping us understand, a much celebrated but under-appreciated text, Wendy Doniger has produced a rich and compelling text of her own that will interest, delight, and surprise scholars and lay readers alike"--
Author : Wendy Doniger
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226156443
"Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger." Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world mythology and popular storytelling. In a tour that runs from Shakespeare to Hollywood and from Abraham Lincoln to Casanova, the erudite and irrepressible Wendy Doniger shows us the variety, danger, and allure of the "bedtrick," or what it means to wake up with a stranger. The Bedtrick brings together hundreds of stories from all over the world, from the earliest recorded Hindu and Hebrew texts to the latest item in the Weekly World News, to show the hilariously convoluted sexual scrapes that people manage to get themselves into and out of. Here you will find wives who accidentally commit adultery with their own husbands. You will read Lincoln's truly terrible poem about a bedtrick. You will learn that in Hong Kong the film The Crying Game was retitled Oh No! My Girlfriend Has a Penis. And that President Clinton was not the first man to be identified by an idiosyncratic organ. At the bottom of these wonderful stories, ancient myths, and historical anecdotes lie the dynamics of sex and gender, power and identity. Why can't people tell the difference in the dark? Can love always tell the difference between one lover and another? And what kind of truth does sex tell? Funny, sexy, and engaging, The Bedtrick is a masterful work of energetic storytelling and dazzling scholarship. Give it to your spouse and your lover.
Author : Claudia Blake
Publisher : DK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 2013-12-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781465415820
"Published in Great Britain by Dorling Kindersley Limited"--Title page verso.
Author :
Publisher : Park Street Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780892814923
This definitive volume is the first modern translation of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra to include two essential commentaries: the Jayamangala of Yashodhara and the modern Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shastri. Alain Danilou spent four years comparing versions of the Kama Sutra in Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, and English, drawing on his intimate experience of India, to preserve the full explicitness of the original. I wanted to demystify India, he writes, to show that a period of great civilization, of high culture, is forcibly a period of great liberty.
Author : Suzie Heumann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1605504912
Originating in India more than 2,000 years ago, the Kama Sutra is the oldest and most widely read sex manual of its kind. This ancient text has achieved new popularity as more and more couples seek tried-and-tested techniques for increasing sexual pleasure, enhancing intimacy, and revitalizing their love lives. The Everything® Kama Sutra Book presents readers with kissing techniques, sexual positions, and sensual play that are sure to heighten pleasure and bring couples closer together emotionally. Author and world-reknowned sex expert Suzie Heumann brings the Kama Sutra into the modern world with practical methods for bringing satisfaction, fulfillment, and happiness to any relationship. Through sensitive instruction and tasteful, authentic illustrations by artist Susan Holve, couples learn how to: ·Set the mood for intimate moments ·Experiment with foreplay ·Enable both partners to reach new heights of ecstasy ·Get past inhibitions and explore creative positions ·Find spiritual as well as sexual fulfillment with a partner Brimming with experienced advice and beautiful images, The Everything® Kama Sutra Book is an intimate guide to making monogamy sizzle.
Author : Eleanor McKenzie
Publisher : Quiver Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 2006-05-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781592332083
The Kama Sutra was originally compiled by a man over 2,000 years ago, and was intended for men to read. The Kama Sutra is the most famous of the eastern love texts, but if it were written by a woman today, it would certainly have a lot more to say! Finally, here is the ultimate new sex guide for women and their partners. Kama Sutra for Her is the first book to reinvent the Kama Sutra for modern women. This book incorporates seduction, foreplay, sexual positions, and other ancient erotic traditions into contemporary sexual practices.
Author : Sadie Cayman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1631584936
Based on the Ancient Indian Sex Manual, Here is Advice to Steam Up Any Bedroom and Spark Life into Any Romance—from Oral Sex to Sitting and Standing Positions to More Adventurous Positions like “The Propeller” and “The Rowing Boat” Sadie Cayman has taken the ancient Kama Sutra and given it a modern self-help feel. Designed to educate you as a lover and advance your lovemaking techniques beyond the basic and boring, this book is designed to make fantasies come true. Here are ways to bring passion to your bedroom (or any room with a chair or table). Positions are ranked for passion, drama, romance, exertion, convenience, and more. Experience: The Bent Kiss The Cap of Luxury The Flowing Triangle Nirvana Supernova The Curled Angel And, to spice things up, Cayman offers quotes and advice about romances and sex from Ingrid Bergman, the Marquis de Sade, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Deepak Chopra, and more. Tastefully illustrated in full color, and playfully written, this new handbook will bring your love life new excitement and challenges. You can offer your new lover or your long-term partner the most passionate, creative, and enthusiastic lovemaking he or she has ever had. You won’t have to fantasize any longer about what it’s like for a lover to thank you after sex. You’ll find out.
Author : Vatsyayana
Publisher : Watkins Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Erotic literature
ISBN : 9781842930656
This is the only truly authentic translation of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra from the ancient Sanskrit. This new edition is beautifully produced and illustrated with photos of the famous Indian sculptures from Sacred Temple at Khajuraho, as well as colorful paintings which depict the delightful aspects of courtship and love. Illustrations.
