"Literally every kingdom across what we call India would have their own version of this written," she explains, though she says that over time, as different cultures and different ideas of morality came into play in the region throughout history, the text gradually fell from prominence. According to Anand, there have been hundreds if not thousands of versions of the Kama Sutra. While its authorship remains shrouded in mystery, the Kama Sutra went on to become a very important and widely disseminated text across the region that later became India. Anand personally believes the famous section on sex (section two out of seven sections) may have been written by a woman because of the way it focuses so much on women's pleasure, which was still radical at the time of its writing. Other stories suggest courtesans of the time paid for the book to be written, she says. According to Indian mythology, she says, some of those original texts are believed to have been written by the wife of the God of Love himself, Kama.
He says that in his introduction," Anand explains. "He says that he took all his information from texts that were written a thousand years before, and that he's pretty much copied and pasted the bits that he likes. And according to Anand, some believe that much of the book may have actually been written by women. However, the book is actually thought to be a collection of previous texts 1 that the author simply stitched together. 300 by a Hindu philosopher named Vātsyāyana Mallanaga, of whom historians know very little other than his name. The Kama Sutra is thought to have been written around the year A.D. "And I get really annoyed when we talk about positions because it's not a book about positions." It's about refinement," says Seema Anand, a sexuality educator, mythologist, and scholar of the Kama Sutra. Therefore, kama sutra roughly translates to "pleasure manual"-though again, it's about pleasure in the broader sense. A sutra is a specific type of Indian literature, typically written in aphorisms and meant to be instructive. The word kama translates to "love, desire, and pleasure," according to Srinivasan. "It's a book about how to live life and appreciate the finer things." "You can actually say that it's a little bit of everything," says Varuna Srinivasan, MPH, FRSPH, a sexual health consultant and gender justice advocate. It was originally written to teach young, wealthy men how to live well, and it includes instructions on a wide variety of topics, such as how to build a house, how to find a wife, how spouses should treat each other, and much more. Though it''s most known for one of its sections that gives instructions on how to have better sexual experiences, the book isn't predominantly about sex. The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian treatise on living a pleasurable life.
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