Gallery of Kamasutra Pictures & Quotes

In this webpage we have used the common spelling 'kamasutra'.

Alternative spellings include 'kama sutra, karma sutra, karmasutra and kama shastra'.

Praised be the three aims of life, virtue (dharma), prosperity (artha), and love (kama), which are the
subject of this work.

Kama is to be learnt from the Kamasutra (aphorisms on love) and from the practice of citizens.

Kama is the enjoyment of appropriate objects by the five senses of hearing, feeling, seeing, tasting and
smelling, assisted by the mind together with the soul.

The ingredient in this is a peculiar contact between the organ of sense and its object, and the
consciousness of pleasure which arises from that contact is called Kama.

Though a woman is reserved, and keeps her feelings concealed; when she gets on the top of a man, she
shows all her love and desire. A man should gather from the actions of the woman of what disposition
she is, and in what way she likes to be enjoyed.

Such passionate actions and amorous gesticulations or movements, which arise on the spur of the
moment, and during sexual intercourse, cannot be defined, and are as irregular as dreams.

A horse having once attained the fifth degree of motion goes on with blind speed, regardless of pits,
ditches, and posts in his way; and in the same manner a loving pair become blind with passion in the
heat of congress, and go on with great impetuosity, paying not the least regard to excess.

For this reason one who is well acquainted with the science of love (Kamasutra), and knowing his own
strength, as also the tenderness, impetuosity, and strength of the young women, should act accordingly.
The various modes of enjoyment are not for all times or for all persons, but they should only be used at
the proper time. and in the proper countries and places.
An ingenious person should multiply the kinds of congress after the fashion of the different kinds of
beasts and of birds. For these different kinds of congress, performed according to the usage of each
country, and the liking of each individual, generate love, friendship, and respect in the hearts of women.

Those things which increase passion should be done first, and those which are only for amusement or
variety should be done afterwards.

When the woman places one of her thighs across the thigh of her lover it is called the 'twining position'.

When a woman forcibly holds in her yoni the lingam after it is in, it is called the 'mare's position'. This is
learnt by practice only, and is chiefly found among the women of the Andhra country.

When the female raises both of her thighs straight up, it is called the 'rising position'.

When she raises both of her legs, and places them on her lover's shoulders, it is called the 'yawning
position'.

When the legs are contracted, and thus held by the lover before his bosom, it is called the 'pressed
position'.

When only one of her legs is stretched out, it is called the 'half pressed position'.

When the woman places one of her legs on her lover's shoulder, and stretches the other out, and then
places the latter on his shoulder, and stretches out the other, and continues to do so alternately, it is
called the 'splitting of a bamboo'.

When one of her legs is placed on the head, and the other is stretched out, it is called the 'fixing of a
nail'. This is learnt by practice only.