Kama Sutra Sex Positions

Title: What is the Kama Sutra
Author: Sediva Staff

Believed to have been written sometime in the third century,c.e. by a sage named Vatsyayana and composed in a state of "highest meditation", this most well-known of Indian texts on the Art of Love, the Kama Sutra has long had a reputation for being a racey sex manual for the uninhibited hedonist, when in actuality this amazingly timeless collection of teachings is surprisingly broad in it's counsel on all aspects of love.

Many assume that the Kama Sutra is exclusively about how to achieve the ultimate in sexual satisfaction, when actually the section that deals with sexual positions and the sexual act itself is only one of the many sections in this "best known Indian book outside of India"

Originally translated by Sir Richard Burton in 1876 and published by the Kama Shastra Society in Great Britain in 1883, the Kama Sutra was declared illegal and banned in England until it's official publishing date of 1963 when it sold like hotcakes. It's popularity at the time is most likely due to it's graphic (and Victorian) depictions of sexual positions in what could possibly be termed at the time as Hindu pornography.

A more recent translation, published in 2002 (Oxford University Press by Doniger & Kakar) newly interprets even the title, transforming it from, "Aphorisms of Love" to "Pleasure Treatise".

This new translation has discovered many new secrets, the bulk of which is the flavor of the entire book: whereas in all earlier translations (1883-1994) the Kama Sutra seemed to express all things in terms of the patriarchal/male-dominated perspective of the Victorian/turn-of-the-century attitudes, this new Kama Sutra reading states things in a more gender-balanced way offering mutuality between men & women.

In the Kama Sutra, the only bad sex is sex shared poorly, (i.e. when one is inattentive to one's lover.) The main element of the sexual positions mentioned (of which there are 64) is that the position facilitates kissing. It being important that the lovers (both) spend time to deepen their bond and connection with each other when making love-no quickies in the Kama Sutra, unless and until the lovers have established a long-time & loving practice. >