Kamasutra
The Kamasutra is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of erotic love. About the art of living as well as about the positions in sexual intercourse, it is here newly translated into clear, vivid, sexually frank English together with three commentaries: excerpts from the earliest and most famous...
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The Kamasutra is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of erotic love. About the art of living as well as about the positions in sexual intercourse, it is here newly translated into clear, vivid, sexually frank English together with three commentaries: excerpts from the earliest and most famous Sanskrit commentary (13th century), a twentieth-century Hindi commentary, and explanatory notes by the translators. The edition is enhanced by a selection of colour plates from an early edition of the work.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780199539161 (0199539162)
ASIN: 199539162
Publish date: May 1st 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 231
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
Reference,
Literature,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Erotica,
Religion,
Philosophy,
India,
Sexuality
No need to feel mortified reading this book! Blessedly free of awkward 60s-ish drawn illustrations, Cosmo-esque cartoon figures, or really disquieting photographs of therapist/lovers modeling the poses, this edition of Kama Sutra offers the original, notorious, and famed work in a clean, straight-fo...
Note that this doesn't include the "two essential commentaries" or whatever that Cindy read, which makes it 300 pages shorter and much much better. And look how pretty it is! need.