According to the Kamasutra, no matter how hard something could feel, a love affair must be self-generated, overwhelmingly passionate, and mustn’t hold anything back.
 All it takes is a glimpse upon the breathtaking masterpieces whose certain Hindu temples are adorned with, for its strong connotations being emulated almost entirely, to the senses overwhelmingly. What else could it reveal to us?
 Its first western version took nearly fifteen hundred years to come out in the market. Its author was the Englishman Sir Richard Francis Burton, a well-renowned researcher and explorer of the 19th century, also the person behind the English version of “Arabian Nights”.
 Old manuscripts on approach techniques within the art of love found their way into the west upon his initiative.  
 By compiling and translating in hide, the Kamasutra of Vatsyana (1883); Amanda Raga (1885) and the scented garden of sheik Nefzaoui (1886), he took the risk of getting fined and jailed.
 As tradition has it, the author of Kamasutra, the Braham Vatsyana, whose Hindu erotica is thought to be the mentor, wrote the treatises of Kamasutra under the direct guidance of the gods themselves.
 Several northern Indian tribesmen had their sexual habits exposed and fully scrutinized in his works. Where it reads “about sexual congress”, for example, he went on to describing its nuances within hugs, kisses, strokes, spots, scratches and bites, so much for the multitude of manners it promoted and sounds that come with it.
 Released undercover in the castrating Victorian epoch, the compilation got a lot of attention thus taken the western by surprised. Latched on the stigma of prohibition has rendered it much more attractive still.
 Currently regarded as the handbook on ultimate pleasure by the eastern standards, and still remains for those after new insights.
J.D.
Anthropologist