There are nine kinds of sexual intercourse

The pleasure of men and women being thus proved to be of the same kind, it follows that in regard to time, there are nine kinds of sexual intercourse, in the same way as there are nine kinds, according to the force of passion.

There being thus nine kinds of union with regard to dimensions, force of passion, and time, respectively, by making combinations of them, innumerable kinds of union would be produced. Therefore in each particular kind of sexual union, men should use such means as they may think suitable for the occasion.[36]

At the first time of sexual union the passion of the male is intense, and his time is short, but in subsequent unions on the same day the reverse of this is the case. With the female, however, it is the contrary, for at the first time her passion is weak, and then her time long, but on subsequent occasions on the same day, her passion is intense and her time short, until her passion is satisfied.

_On the different kinds of Love._

Men learned in the humanities are of opinion that love is of four kinds, viz.:

1. Love acquired by continual habit.

2. Love resulting from the imagination.

3. Love resulting from belief.

4. Love resulting from the perception of external objects.

(1). Love resulting from the constant and continual performance and habit, as for instance the love of sexual intercourse, the love of hunting, the love of drinking, the love of gambling, etc., etc.

(2). Love which is felt for things to which we are not habituated, and which proceeds entirely from ideas, is called love resulting from imagination, as for instance, that love which some men and women and eunuchs feel for the Auparishtaka or mouth congress, and that which is felt by all for such things as embracing, kissing, etc., etc.

(3). The love which is mutual on both sides, and proved to be true, when each looks upon the other as his or her very own, such is called love resulting from belief by the learned.

(4). The love resulting from the perception of eternal objects is quite evident and well-known to the world, because the pleasure which it affords is superior to the pleasure of the other kinds of love, which exists only for its sake.

What has been said in this chapter upon the subject of sexual union is sufficient for the learned; but for the edification of the ignorant, the same will now be treated of at length and in detail.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 33: High unions are said to be better than low ones, for in the former it is possible for the male to satisfy his own passion without injuring the female, while in the latter it is difficult for the female to be satisfied by any means.]

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana
• 2: And studying the opinions of Gonikaputra
• 3: Tender and fair as the yellow lotus
• 4: The sage Vatsya was of this opinion
• 5: The latter was a descendant of Bhaskur
• 6: Namely those which treated of Dharma
• 7: About the acquisition of a wife
• 8: Of the Causes of a Courtesan resorting to Men
• 9: Artha is the acquisition of arts
• 10: Which ordains the practice of Dharma
• 11: For this story the Mahabarata should be referred to
• 12: Are actually versed in the Kama Shastra
• 13: Art of preparing perfumes and odours
• 14: Knowledge of scanning or constructing verses
• 15: Pots containing collyrium and other fragrant substances
• 16: And passed the time in various agreeable diversions
• 17: And in the abode of public women
• 18: Wilson's 'Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindoos
• 19: But the practice of Kama with women of the lower castes
• 20: And the woman resorted to for a special purpose
• 21: Of a learned Brahman and of a king should be excepted
• 22: The word Nayika is retained as a technical term throughout
• 23: For if they had no semen there would be no embryo
• 24: She has a desire to discontinue coition
• 25: There are nine kinds of sexual intercourse
• 26: Which contains sixty four verses
• 27: Or the mixture of sesamum seed with rice
• 28: It is called the embrace of the jaghana
• 29: Saying let another wager be laid
• 30: And kisses his thigh or great toe
• 31: Is called the leaf of a blue lotus
• 32: It is called the swollen bite
• 33: And dislike pressing the nails and biting
• 34: The women of the Lat country have even more impetuous desire
• 35: The woman presses her lover with her thighs
• 36: Or when one courtesan is alone with many men
• 37: And the sound Phut in the interior of the mouth
• 38: And go on with great impetuosity
• 39: She puts aside all bashfulness
• 40: And this is called Auparishtaka
• 41: Holding the lingam in his hand
• 42: Of kissing the yoni should be known from kissing the mouth
• 43: They should eat some betel leaves
• 44: The congress between a courtezan and a rustic
• 45: About the acquisition of a wife
• 46: There are many omens of the same kind
• 47: They sometimes suddenly become haters of sexual connection
• 48: And when at last importuned to reply
• 49: And other games of the same sort
• 50: Under some pretext or other she shows her limbs to him
• 51: And touch her under some pretence or other
• 52: And are not confidential with them
• 53: After the consummation of the marriage
• 54: The Gandharva 52 form of marriage is respected
• 55: Together with the fragrant grass andropogon schaenanthus
• 56: And some sweet smelling ointments or unguents
• 57: Or a virgin widow 53 re married
• 58: She should sympathize with her
• 59: Should interview the women of the harem
• 60: Who accepted the ointment of one of them
• 61: And from her characteristic marks and signs
• 62: Bashfulness on account of his being too clever
• 63: A woman whose children are dead
• 64: That female messengers should be employed
• 65: Or betel nuts to be kept for him by her
• 66: When a man is endeavouring to seduce one woman
• 67: When shampooing him she works with one hand only
• 68: But in the event of his being a hare man
• 69: Gonikaputra asserts that a go between should be employed
• 70: A wife serving as a go between
• 71: Or these Quand on vous voit
• 72: Previous to these festivals even
• 73: When she has visited the harem
• 74: And fruits having the form of the Lingam
• 75: The entrance of young men into harems
• 76: May cause other persons to enter the harem
• 77: Is never deceived in the case of his own wives
• 78: But while some women are born courtesans
• 79: Possessed of independent means of livelihood
• 80: In their absence the Pithamardas
• 81: When a courtesan is living as a wife with her lover
• 82: Abstaining from putting on her ornaments
• 83: She should not make use of artifice
• 84: Or cooking utensils to a trader
• 85: The behaviour of a waning lover is as follows 1st
• 86: Then also festivals are observed
• 87: He should not then be resorted to
• 88: The courtesan should consider well before she acts
• 89: One of whom is attached to the courtesan
• 90: But Vatsyayana says that money has only a limited importance
• 91: As also of the different kinds of courtesans
• 92: When by living with a man a courtesan simply gets money
• 93: When a courtesan is requested by a friend
• 94: When a courtesan is uncertain whether a former enemy
• 95: Thus end the considerations of courtesans
• 96: Together with the tabernamontana coronaria
• 97: And the hedysarum gangeticum plant
• 98: If a man pounds the seeds or roots of the trapa bispinosa
• 99: These Apadravyas should be made of gold
• 100: And the juice of the fruit of the vernonia anthelmintica
• 101: The juice of the roots of the madayantaka plant
• 102: There will be found in part VII
• 103: For narrowing and contracting the yoni
• 104: Page 4 calied Pachivedas changed to called Pachivedas
• 105: Page 171 trapa bisqinosa changed to trapa bispinosa