The Kamasutra is the oldest extant textbook of erotic love. But it is more than a book about sex. It is about the art of living--about finding a partner, maintaining power in a marriage, committing adultery, living as or with a courtesan, using drugs--and also, of course, about the many and varied positions available to lovers in sexual intercourse and the pleasures to be derived from each. The Kamasutra was composed in Sanskrit, the literary language of ancient India, sometime in the third century, probably in North India. It combines an encyclopedic coverage of all imaginable aspects of sex with a closely observed sexual psychology and a dramatic, novelistic narrative of seduction, consummation, and disentanglement. Best known in English through the highly mannered, padded, and inaccurate nineteenth-century translation by Sir Richard Burton, the text is newly translated here into clear, vivid, sexually frank English. This edition also includes a section of vivid Indian color illustrations along with three uniquely important commentaries: translated excerpts from the earliest and most famous Sanskrit commentary (thirteenth century) and from a twentieth-century Hindi commentary, and explanatory notes by the two translators. The lively and entertaining introduction by translator Wendy Doniger, one of the world's foremost Sanskrit scholars, discusses the history of The Kamasutra and its reception in India and Europe, analyses its attitudes toward gender and sexual violence, and sets it in the context of ancient Indian social theory, scientific method, and sexual ethics. " This] new translation is fascinating, thought-provoking and occasionally even amusing."--Salon.com
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想起电视剧<名门望族>的主题曲. 无意间在女子图书馆的架子上找到这本书.年代之久远,很多内容大概一晃而过. 有一段的收获:关于丈夫如何处理与多个情人的关系,女子怎么面对多妻制的家庭. 和<名门望族>里处理的一样,所以男主角令每个妻子对他又爱又恨.也由此衍生出关于如何处理家...
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評分 評分文/老钱 有一段时间我挺伪文艺的，所以便心思活络地想在性情写作方面作一点儿尝试。但我这人骨子里并不具备那种不懂装懂的范儿，所以便决定退而结网，把理论基础打扎实后，再出来写点儿东西，供和我一样的伪文艺青年或者和我不一样的纯文艺青年们乐上一乐。 《爱经》就是结网...
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