Vatsyayan

Vatsyayan (late 4th- early 5th century), also Malla Naga, was an Indian philosopher and Sanskrit writer. He is known as author of Kama Sutra, that is the Art of Sex.

Wisdom & Quotes

• An intelligent and prudent person attending to Dharm (duty), Arth (wealth), and Kama (love) also without becoming the slave of his passions obtains success in everything that he may undertake.

- Kamasutra ( also spelled Kama Sutra)

• A courtesan of a pleasant disposition, beautiful, and otherwise attractive, who has mastered the arts... has the right to a seat of honour among men. She will be honoured by the king and praised by the learned, and all will seek her favours and treat her with consideration.

- Kamasutra , On learned prostitutes

• For the first three days after their marriage husband and wife should sleep on the floor and abstain from intercourse... For the next seven days they should bathe to the sound of music, adorn themselves, dine together, and pay their respects to their relatives and to the other people who attended their wedding... On the evening of the tenth day the husband should speak gently to his wife... to give her confidence... Vatsyayan recommends that a man should at first refrain from intercourse, until he has won over his bride and gained her confidence, for women, being gentle by nature, prefer to be won over gently. If a woman is forced to submit to rough handling from a man who she scarcely knows she may come to hate sexual intercourse, and even to hate the whole male sex... or she may grow to detest her husband in particular, and will then turn to another man.

- Kamasutra

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