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Index
Cover
Copyright Page
Title Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Introduction
I. The Text
The Text and its Author(s)
The Genre of the Kamasutra
The Science and Magic of Numbers
The Kamasutraas a Play in Seven Acts
The Genders of the Kamasutra
Psychology and Culture in the Kamasutra
II. The Commentaries
Yashodhara’s Jayamangala
Devadatta Shastri’s Jaya
III. Translations into European Languages
Burton et al.
Other Translations
The Present Translation
Sexually Explicit Vocabulary
Contemporary Pleasures of the Text
A Note on Presentation
BOOK ONE · GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
ONE Summary of the Text [1]
TWO The Means of Achieving the Three Aims of Human Life [2]
THREE Exposition of the Arts [3]
FOUR The Lifestyle of the Man-about-town [4]
FIVE Reasons for Taking Another Man’s Wife
The Work of the Man’s Male Helpers and Messengers [5]
BOOK TWO · SEX
ONE Sexual Typology According to Size, Endurance, and Temperament [6]
Types of Love [7]
TWO Ways of Embracing [8]
THREE Procedures of Kissing [9]
FOUR Types of Scratching with the Nails [10]
FIVE Ways of Biting [11]
Customs from Different Regions [12]
SIX Varieties of Sexual Positions [13]
Unusual Sexual Acts [14]
SEVEN Modes of Slapping [15]
The Accompanying Moaning [16]
EIGHT The Woman Playing the Man’s Part [17]
A Man’s Sexual Strokes [18]
NINE Oral Sex [19]
TEN The Start and Finish of Sex [20]
Different Kinds of Sex [21]
Lovers’ Quarrels [22]
BOOK THREE · VIRGINS
ONE Courting the Girl [23]
Making Alliances [24]
TWO Winning a Virgin’s Trust [25]
THREE Making Advances to a Young Girl [26]
Interpreting her Gestures and Signals [27]
FOUR The Advances that a Man Makes on his Own [28]
The Advances that a Virgin Makes to the Man She Wants [29]
The Advances that Win a Virgin [30]
FIVE Devious Devices for Weddings [31]
BOOK FOUR · WIVES
ONE The Life of an Only Wife [32]
Her Behaviour during his Absence [33]
TWO The Senior Wife [34]
The Junior Wife [35]
The Second-hand Woman [36]
The Wife Unlucky in Love [37]
Women of the Harem [38]
A Man’s Management of Many Women
BOOK FIVE · OTHER MEN’S WIVES
ONE On the Characteristic Natures of Women and Men [39]
Causes of Resistance [40]
Men who are Successful with Women [41]
Women who can be Won without Effort [42]
TWO Ways of Becoming Intimate [43]
Making Advances [44]
THREE Testing her Feelings [45]
FOUR The Duties of a Female Messenger [46]
FIVE The Sex Life of a Man in Power [47]
SIX The Life of the Women of the Harem [48]
The Guarding of Wives [49]
BOOK SIX · COURTESANS
ONE Deciding on a Friend, an Eligible Lover, and an Ineligible Lover [50]
Getting a Lover [51]
TWO Giving the Beloved what He Wants [52]
THREE Ways to Get Money from Him [53]
Signs that his Passion is Cooling [54]
Ways to Get Rid of Him [55]
FOUR Getting Back Together with an Ex-lover [56]
FIVE Weighing Different Kinds of Profits [57]
SIX Calculating Gains and Losses, Consequences, and Doubts [58]
Types of Courtesans
BOOK SEVEN · EROTIC ESOTERICA
ONE Making Luck in Love [59]
Putting Someone in your Power [60]
Stimulants for Virility [61]
TWO Rekindling Exhausted Passion [62]
Methods of Increasing the Size of the Male Organ [63]
Unusual Techniques [64]
Appendix: Excerpts from Devadatta Shastri’s Commentary
Explanatory Notes
Bibliography
Glossary and Index
Footnote
Introduction
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