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Vatsyayana also mentions variations in kissing cultures in different parts of ancient India.

Doniger's presentation style titillates, yet some details misinform and parts of her interpretations are dubious, states Sil.

DB Taraporevala Orig publication year: 1961.

Attributed to , the Kama Sutra is neither exclusively nor predominantly a on , 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.

It discusses, in its distilled form, the physiology, the emotions and the experience while citing and quoting prior Sanskrit scholarship on the nature of kama.

Wrap your legs around them and hug each other for support.

In reality, according to Doniger, the real Kamasutra is much more and is a book about "the art of living", about understanding one's body and a partner's body, finding a partner and emotional connection, marriage, the power equation over time in intimate relationships, the nature of adultery and drugs aphrodisiacs along with many simple to complex variations in sex positions to explore.

Vatsyayana; SC Upadhyaya transl 1965.

In that very fire the gods offer semen, and from that offering springs a man.

Burton adroitly avoided being viewed as obscene to the Victorian mindset by avoiding the use of words such as penis, vulva, vagina and other direct or indirect sexual terms in the Sanskrit text to discuss sex, sexual relationships and human sexual positions.