Ruth Vanita, PhD is a professor of South and Southeast Asian studies at the University of Montana. But, she adds, "Unfortunately, people still use these reductive, racist ideas to think about Indian sexuality in the past and present."ĭurba Mitra, PhD is an assistant professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Harvard University, and author of Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought. The "distortion" of the book happened "in part because the first edition of Kama Sutra in English was done by colonial enthusiast-and Orientalist-Richard Burton in the late nineteenth century," she explains.īurton "wanted to create a fantasy for his English-speaking audience by portraying people of the East as hypersexual and unchanging, without history," notes Mitra. The original set of texts that became known as Kama Sutra "were actually about everything from urban living to statecraft, from perfumes to gardens," Mitra says. " Kama Sutra is a book of philosophy on ethics and aesthetics, never just an ancient text on sexual positions and sexual pleasure."
and other parts of the western world," says Durba Mitra, PhD, an assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University, and author of Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought. "The Kama Sutra has been quite distorted in how it has circulated in translation in the U.S. If penetration is not on the table (er, bed), she suggests exploring oral-to-nipple stimulation, hand hanky-panky, making out, ear and neck licking/sucking/tongue-flicking, external vibrator use, and grinding.The Kama Sutra, written by Indian philosopher Vatsyayana, has garnered a lot of attention for acting as a guidebook to what seems like every sex position ever-but the ancient Sanskrit text is so much more than a reference book for intricate genital gymnastics.
So rather than fast thrusting, try slow rocking. And it's all about slow, soulful lovemaking, she emphasizes. "Typically, the partner on the bottom will penetrate the partner on top, and then for (vaginal or anal) penetrative intercourse to take place," she says. What you do from here depends on your genital combination and sexual preferences.
"If it's comfortable, the seated-on-top person can wrap their legs tightly around their partner's torso while the bottom partner pulls you both together with their arms," says Queen. To get into this position, have one partner-the partner who's going to be doing the penetrating with a dildo, penis, or fingers (if any penetration is going to be taking place!)-drop their bum onto the bed (or floor, or couch!) and assume a crisscross applesauce position.įacing them, have the second straddle them and lower down so that you're both chest-to-chest and eye-to-eye.
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