Kama Sutra – a history for your information 211108

Discovering the Kama Sutra?

Of all the philosophies and ways of life that have filtered from the Far East to western consciousness, the Kama Sutra is perhaps one of the best known, up there with Yoga and Buddhism. Starting in the late 18th century and travelling abroad becoming popular, Europe and Northern America have been flooded with art treasures, ideas, and philosophies from the Far East that have changed, to a certain extent, our way of thinking.

Busy Westerners obsessed with living in the now are fascinated by the attitudes of people who are content to live each day as it comes and are not afraid of what the future holds.

Whenever the legendary Kama Sutra is mentioned, the first thing people think of most people think of is an exotic self help book on sexual satisfaction and an ancient porn magazine. The correct title is “Vatsyayana’s Aphorisms on Love” (“Vatsyayana Kamasutram”) and it’s a treaty consisting of 36 chapters.

The central tenant behind this collection of aphorisms is to provide a comprehensive guide to sex, courtly etiquette, the courtship of married ! women, marriage itself and, finally, improving one’s sexual prowess through the use of herbs, spells and sex toys. As you can see, the purpose of this book was to become a definitive guide to what love and sex meant to the Indian society around the 4th century AD.

Aside from the section covering sex and love, the “Aphorisms on Love” is in fact an orthodox book, detailing the fashion of the society that spawned it. It teaches the aspiring lover what to do in order to get the woman he desires while still protecting both his and hers reputations and good names. Reputation was extremely important throughout the ancient world, and the person who forfeited his good name over such an insignificant thing as sex was considered to be frivolous, and unworthy of the esteem of others. Vatsyayana, a celibate scholar, believed that sex was not wrong in itself, but that engaging in it was certainly frivolous and sinful.

The 36 chapters of the sutra were each written by experts on the issues and covers a wide range of issues, such as observations on the daily life of a citizen, sexual positions, personal adornment, how to kiss, how to woo a women and the means by which courtesans earn money.

While the best known part of the book, the study of sex and sexual positions, makes up a mere 20 percent of the whole text. Those schoolers who are truly interested in sex should read the book in its entirety. And still after numerous centuries the ancient theisms ! are still surprisingly accurate because people still want the same basic things from one another.

Although this may sound very unlikely, at the bottom Kama Sutra is somewhat akin to Machiavelli’s “The Prince”, although the Indian book on love is much more careful to observe the morals of the time. Both books are guides to some of the aspects of their respective societies and both deal with them in a frank and realistic manner.

The scholar Vatsyayana was not fooling himself when he wrote about men and women being naturally virtuous creatures and so was perfectly willing to give advice on how to seduce married women, just as Machiavelli knew that a prince is bound to do evil things from time to time.

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