This book combines the Hindu sage Vatsyayana's celebrated treatise with illustrations from various schools of painting on the theme of sexual pleasure. The intention of these works was to provide instruction as well as enjoyment. Its view of sexuality is both jaunty and pragmatic, its analysis of sexual politics often chillingly realistic.
Said to have been written sometime in the 4th century ad the kama sutra of vatsyayana, first translated into english in 1883 is much more than a mere description of exotic sexual practices it attempts to cover the entire gamut of man/woman relationships, from furnishing ones house to seducing other mens wives this selection is from this authoritative translation, vividly interspersed with beautiful photographs from museums and private collections
One of the oldest living cities in the world and the nerve centre of spiritual India, Banaras reveals itself as a fascinating composite of the historical and the mythical, of the ancient and the modern, of the real and the transcendental. To experience it, one needs not just sight but insight.