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Summary: Very Complete
Review: I was looking for a book that was a more modern translation of the ancient text, but I suppose I needed something a little less complete. I didn't realize this book would have everything from finding a wife to how to devirginize her. I was a little disappointed.
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Summary: related information
Review: I work with a group of people from all nationalities, one of who is East Indian. She is very religious and was born in India; when she first heard of this book and its subject matter, she was intrigued. Her and a close friend rush off to the video store to obtain the movie and watch it. Her opinion is that no self respecting person of her culture would even portray a part in a movie involving this subject matter; she states that she is not aware of any part of India that practices this art and she has been made to realize that this type of behavior maybe took place many years ago. She is a very educated person but when she was going to school, any reference to sex at all was skipped and never discussed at all. Her thoughts on this subject has got me to wondering if the author did any research regarding this and who he spoke to. I realize that my friend represents her race and to tell you the truth, even though I do not know many they all act the same in re: to this subject and are very closed mouth about this subject. Most marriages are arranged and both partners are very hard workers, busy raising families and I would find it amazing that they would have the time to have extramarital affairs to experiment with someone in re: to this subject.
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Summary: well.....
Review: i've never really read the book, although it has to be better than that movie they made about it. DON'T RENT THE MOVIE!!! a completely illustrated version would be interesting as well...
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Summary: Great,very informative
Review: It helped alot. Very clear and distinct
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Summary: just to clarify...
Review: It seems to me that most people who have read the book seem to believe that Alain Danielou wrote most of the book; although I know for sure that he himself does not think so. I just wanted to clarify to all readers that these writings are a part of a rich and varied culture of India, and have been revered by all indians young and old as a sacred book. I have not read the book myself, but will be on my way in doing so, but will continuously be in the process of comparing it to the real work. and btw, do not compare the movie to the real writings. thank you all very much for listening.
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Summary: A Translation par Excellence
Review: It was the film "Kama Sutra" that led me to this classic. The idea of someone documenting various forms of making love was intriguing and I started exploring further on the original work. Once I got past a few mindnumbing translations, I discovered this work. I saw my initial curiosity turning into fascination at first, but when I finished the work I had nothing but respect for this work ("Eroticism is firstly a search for pleasure, and the goal of the techniques of love is to attain a paroxysm considered by the Upanishads ( holy texts) as a perception of the divine state, which is infinite delight ").Alan Danielou's seems to have impressive credentials that bring an impeccable authenticity to this work. There is hardly a subject the author has not dealt with. If the range of subjects dealt with fascinates you (marriage, adultery, prostitution, group sex, sadomasochism, male and female homosexuality, and transvestitism) the scientific approach and the depth of classification in dealing with those subjects might bewilder you. ("There are different types of men and women according to their sizes of the organs, their moment of sexual enjoyment, and the violence of their sexual impulse"). The part dealing with occult practices is a blast. These practices include ointments for the body, marks on the forehead, powders sprinkled over the woman and substances that she be made to ingest, the surprising things she must be shown, as well as the means and remedies for subjugating her. This section also manifest the thoroughness of the research done almost 2000 years back. While the considerable pains the author has undergone to protect the integrity of the original work makes this a classic, it is possible that at times the casual reader will be hard pressed to follow. The author emphasizes that this is not a pornographic work and is merely an impartial and systematic study of one of the essential aspects of existence. There is ample proof of that throughout the book.
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Summary: WOW!
Review: My little Smurfette and I use this manual quite often. If you wanna have a good time when the kids are at the sitter, you need to use this book. It is the smurfiest thing since...I just don't know. There are no words. Totally hot and erotic, with little pictures for you to enjoy! Like other reviewers before me, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this one for newly weds. Get your kicks while you're still young enough to get em! Smurf this book now, and don't forget to hide it in a safe place, away from your little smurfs! Trust me, you don't want them to smurf this!
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Summary: A Scholarly Work for the Intelligent, Not the Ignorant
Review: There exist in every society those puritanical, cynical human beings who simply must rain on parades, in spite of the fact that, as we all know, they have some of the strongest sexual drives amongst us. Some of these individuals, who either do not read works carefully or are incapable of gathering meaning from what they read, are the ones that insist that the Kama Sutra should not be read. I suppose they are against sex education in schools as well. It is sad that they are amongst the ignorant mentioned in the book itself. The authors of this magnificent, over 3,000 year old study of one element of our human nature stated in Mr Daneilou's scholarly, commendable translation that the work is to be read by "the citizen," meaning a person with both academic and moral education and the financial means to make use of the knowledge. The poor, as the work accurately mentions, are focused on survival and have no time to acquire the ability to comprehend the information. The uneducated or "ignorant-and-proud-of-it" ones are, by their own refusal to learn, unable to see this work as part of the "three aims of life (virtue/morality, financial prosperity and love/eroticism)." They therefore cannot differentiate between what is good or bad for themselves in it, and tend to see the work as a giant "how to" manual. This group includes fools who attempt to do and suggest their friends or mates do whatever is written in the book, and complain about the lack of pictures in this volume. As the authors and the translator on more than one occasion state that this is not a book on ethics, it is precisely this ability to comprehend and select what is good that makes this a work for those with the means to acquire and the ability to assimilate knowledge ONLY. In old India both men and women of good standing were expected to know the Kama Sutra back and forth, even though it was from the beginning never a work for open public discussion. In ancient times, an educated person balanced this work with others on the other two aims of life. Today, the knowledgeable can do the same with the works of his or her choice. Those of us who are intelligent can take the male chauvinistic parts of the work and wonder at the progress we have made over the centuries, and wonder still at the progress we have yet to make. Those of us who really care about ridding our societies of some of the sick perversities we see in the papers today can examine, like surgeons, the ancient roots of these behaviors and develop a better base for dealing with and eradicating them. And last but not least, those who really want to understand how thorough knowledge leads to experiencing the kind of ecstatic sexual pleasure they thought only happens in the movies or porno books should get down to the business of learning some of the "64 arts" mentioned in the book, the very first of those being the reading and assimilation of The Kama Sutra. This work, in my opinion, is rated AANI (All Ages No Idiots).
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Summary: Sensual, intimate and incredible! Making love is an art!
Review: This book is overlooked by so many who desire to make love to their partners as though they were the only person in the world. The positions offered are incredible and although it may be uncomfortable to try some of them the ecstasy is well worth any discomfort or embarrassment. Try them! You will never experience total release from the world like lying in your lover's arm in one of these incredible positions!
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Summary: kamasutra, yes, but not the best
Review: This book shows some extra stuff I wasn't interested i like but there are many books good too.
I also recommend ***** and more Sex and the perfect lover and the Kamasutra by Mabel Iam. I this book is to everyone. You want kamasutra and tantra you must read!!!
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