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The Kamasutra is the oldest extant textbook of erotic love. But it is more than a book about sex. It is about the art of living - about finding a partner, maintaining power in a marriage, committing adultery, living as or with a courtesan, using drugs - and also, of course, about the many and varied positions available to lovers in sexual intercourse and the pleasures to be derived from each. The Kamasutra was composed in Sanskrit, the literary language of ancient India, sometime in the third century, probably in North India. It combines an encyclopedic coverage of all imaginable aspects of sex with a closely observed sexual psychology and a dramatic, novelistic narrative of seduction, consummation, and disentanglement. Best known in English through the highly mannered, padded, and inaccurate nineteenth-century translation by Sir Richard Burton, the text is newly translated here into clear, vivid, sexually frank English. This edition also includes a section of vivid Indian color illustrations along with three uniquely important commentaries: translated excerpts from the earliest and most famous Sanskrit commentary (thirteenth century) and from a twentieth-century Hindi commentary, and explanatory notes by the two translators. The lively and entertaining introduction by translator Wendy Doniger, one of the world's foremost Sanskrit scholars, discusses the history of The Kamasutra and its reception in India and Europe, analyses its attitudes toward gender and sexual violence, and sets it in the context of ancient Indian social theory, scientific method, and sexual ethics.
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Martin Bonsen
reviewed Kamasutra on April 15, 2012 Kamasutra
Before biff and chip, before the alphabet books, this is the first book i ever read. i remember well being read this book as i nodded off to sleep, and the pleasant dreams that would follow. as a
four year old this book meant a lot to me, it completely shaped my views on literature and what a book meant to people. at age 8 i killed a man. that has nothing to do with this book, just thought i'd mention it. anyway, without this book i would never have got that job as a basketball player for the detroit pistons. no homo.
this book is about the human condition and what it means to be a working class youth in 16th century london. this is why this book appealed to me so. it can speak to people on all walks of life, no homo.
i killed a man once. but anyway....
this book started the second world war. i have no evidence for this, yet still i believe it. but anyway, this book is awesome. my favourite part is when the nasty old witch realises we're all the same in the end, and we are all born equal. then she bones the elevator attendant. no homo.
anyway, i killed a man. but yeah, this book changed my life. after reading this at the age of 213, i realised life was not a game, that we must make each day as important as the last, and that pandas are spies for Belgium. no homo.
this book taught me about how a robot works. now i will apply to robot wars and design a robot that can kill all others, maybe even one day rule the world. it sounds silly, bu this book truly filled me with hope, which is what a book should not do. honestly, this book is a bad influence on everyone that reads it. i let a person live once. homo.
did you ever go to sea world? it was about several sexual positions and how keith chegwin ruled monday night television. he didn't. but he wished he did. no homo.
anyway, this book was written long ago, which is cool cos a lot of things happen long ago (e.g. trousers, the beubonic plague, hitler, TISWAS, the list goes on). i think people should read this book so that everyone understands the true meaning of christmas. no santa.
as a toddler, this book scared me. i didn't understand. but now. the end. no homo.
so yeah, this book taught me how to walk, you wouldn't believe it but its true. this book is all about walking places. it just got a bad rep for being about the murder of alsations, but no, it is about how to walk.
so please, read this book and die. homo.
from the reviewer of this book,
Salmand Rushdie.
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