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The "Kama Sutra" is an ancient Indian text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior. A large portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse. "Kama" is one of the three goals of life, means sensual or sexual pleasure. The second part of the book deals about amorous advances and sexual union, stimulation of desire, types of embraces, caressing and kisses, marking with nails, biting and marking with teeth, on copulation (positions), slapping by hand and corresponding moaning, virile behavior in women, superior coition and oral sex, preludes and conclusions to the game of love. It describes 64 types of sexual acts. "Kama Sutra" is not just an exclusive sex manual. It presents itself as a guide to a virtuous and gracious living that discusses the nature of love and other aspects pertaining to pleasure.
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Lance Dane is a writer, photographer, renowned scholar, and the founder of the Sanskriti Museum of Every Day Art in Delhi. He has dedicated over five decades to researching and archiving all aspects of the "Kama Sutra" and other pre-Vedic and Vedic classical erotica. His private collections of over 9,000 books on Indian art and architecture and his 300,000 archival photographs are housed in the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts in New Delhi. He lives in India.
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- PublisherBookthrift Co
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 9997345398
- ISBN 13 9789997345394
- BindingHardcover
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