Kama Sutra

by Rachel Hughes

  If a man mixes the powder of the milk hedge plant, and the kantaka plant with the excrement of a monkey and the powdered root of the lanjalika plant, and throws this mixture on a woman, she will not love anybody else afterwards.

  If a man thickens the juice of the fruits of the cassia fistula, and the eugenia jambolana by mixing them with the powder of the soma plant, the vernonia anthelmintica, the eclipta prostata, and the lohopa-jihirka, and applies this composition to the yoni of a woman, and then has sexual intercourse with her, his love for her will be destroyed.

  The same effect is produced if a man has connection with a woman who has bathed in the buttermilk of a she-buffalo mixed with the powders of the gopalika plant, the banu-padika plant and the yellow amaranth.

  An ointment made of the flowers of the nauclea cadamba, the hog plum, and the eugenia jambolana, and used by a woman, causes her to be disliked by her husband.

  Garlands made of the above flowers, when worn by the woman, produce the same effect.

  An ointment made of the fruit of the asteracantha longifolia (kokilaksha) will contract the yoni of a Hastini or Elephant woman, and this contraction lasts for one night.

  An ointment made by pounding the roots of the nelumbrium speciosum, and of the blue lotus, and the powder of the plant physalis flexuosa mixed with ghee and honey, will enlarge the yoni of the Mrigi or Deer woman.

  An ointment made of the fruit of the emblica myrabolans soaked in the milky juice of the milk hedge plant, of the soma plant, the calotropis gigantea, and the juice of the fruit of the vernonia anthelmintica, will make the hair white.

  The juice of the roots of the madayantaka plant, the yellow amaranth, the anjanika plant, the clitoria ternateea, and the shlakshnaparin plant, used as a lotion, will make the hair grow.

  An ointment made by boiling the above roots in oil, and rubbed in, will make the hair black, and will also gradually restore hair that has fallen off.

  If lac is saturated seven times in the sweat of the testicle of a white horse, and applied to a red lip, the lip will become white.

  The colour of the lips can be regained by means of the madayantika and other plants mentioned above.

  A woman who hears a man playing on a reed pipe which has been dressed with the juices of the bahupadika plant, the tabernamontana coronaria, the costus speciosus or arabicus, the pinus deodora, the euphorbia antiquorum, the vajra and the kantaka plant, becomes his slave.

  If food be mixed with the fruit of the thorn apple (dathura) it causes intoxication.

  If water be mixed with oil and the ashes of any kind of grass except the kusha grass, it becomes the colour of milk.

  If yellow myrabolans, the hog plum, the shrawana plant, and the priyangu plant be all pounded together, and applied to iron pots, these pots become red.

  If a lamp, trimmed with oil extracted from the shrawana and priyangu plants, its wick being made of cloth and the slough of the skins of snakes, is lighted, and long pieces of wood placed near it, those pieces of wood will resemble so many snakes.

  Drinking the milk of a white cow who has a white calf at her foot is auspicious, produces fame, and preserves life.

  The blessings of venerable Brahmans, well propitiated, have the same effect.

  There are also some verses in conclusion:

  'Thus have I written in a few words the "Science of love", after reading the texts of ancient authors, and following the ways of enjoyment mentioned in them.'

  'He who is acquainted with the true principles of this science pays regard to Dharma, Artha, Kama, and to his own experiences, as well as to the teachings of others, and does not act simply on the dictates of his own desire. As for the errors in the science of love which I have mentioned in this work, on my own authority as an author, I have, immediately after mentioning them, carefully censured and prohibited them.'

  'An act is never looked upon with indulgence for the simple reason that it is authorised by the science, because it ought to be remembered that it is the intention of the science, that the rules which it contains should only be acted upon in particular cases. After reading and considering the works of Babhravya and other ancient authors, and thinking over the meaning of the rules given by them, the Kama Sutra was composed, according to the precepts of Holy Writ, for the benefit of the world, by Vatsyayana, while leading the life of a religious student, and wholly engaged in the contemplation of the Deity.'

  'This work is not intended to be used merely as an instrument for satisfying our desires. A person, acquainted with the true principles of this science, and who preserves his Dharma, Artha, and Kama, and has regard for the practices of the people, is sure to obtain the mastery over his senses. ‘In short, an intelligent and prudent person, attending to Dharma and Artha, and attending to Kama also, without becoming the slave of his passions, obtains success in everything that he may undertake.'

  An ointment made of the tabernamontana coronaria, the costus speciosus or arabicus, and the flacourtia cataphracta, can be used as an unguent of adornment.

  If a fine powder is made of the above plants, and applied to the wick of a lamp, which is made to burn with the oil of blue vitrol, the black pigment or lamp black produced therefrom, when applied to the eyelashes, has the effect of making a person look lovely.

  The oil of the hogweed, the echites putescens, the sarina plant, the yellow amaranth, and the leaf of the nymphae, if applied to the body, has the same effect. A black pigment from the same plants produces a similar effect.

  By eating the powder of the nelumbrium speciosum, the blue lotus, and the mesna roxburghii, with ghee and honey, a man becomes lovely in the eyes of others.

  The above things, together with the tabernamontana coronaria, and the xanthochymus pictorius, if used as an ointment, produce the same results.

  If the bone of a peacock or of a hyena be covered with gold, and tied on the right hand, it makes a man lovely in the eyes of other people.

  In the same way, if a bead, made of the seed of the jujube, or of the conch shell, be enchanted by the incantations mentioned in the Atharvana Veda, or by the incantations of those well skilled in the science of magic, and tied on the hand, it produces the same result as described above.

  When a female attendant arrives at the age of puberty, her master should keep her secluded, and when men ardently desire her on account of her seclusion, and on account of the difficulty of approaching her, he should then bestow her hand on such a person as may endow her with wealth and happiness. This is a means of increasing the loveliness of a person in the eyes of others.

  In the same way, when the daughter of a courtesan arrives at the age of puberty, the mother should get together a lot of young men of the same age, disposition, and knowledge as her daughter, and tell them that she would give her in marriage to the person who would give her presents of a particular kind.

  After this the daughter should be kept in seclusion as far as possible, and the mother should give her in marriage to the man who may be ready to give her the presents agreed upon. If the mother is unable to get so much out of the man, she should show some of her own things as having been given to the daughter by the bridegroom.

  Or the mother may allow her daughter to be married to the man privately, as if she was ignorant of the whole affair, and then pretending that it has come to her knowledge, she may give her consent to the union.

  The daughter, too, should make herself attractive to the sons of wealthy citizens, unknown to her mother, and make them attached to her, and for this purpose should meet them at the time of learning to sing, and in places where music is played, and at the houses of other people, and then request her mother, through a female friend, or servant, to be allowed to unite herself to the man who is most agreeable to her.

  When the daughter of a courtesan is thus given to a man, the ties of marriage should be observed for one year, and after that she may do what she likes. But even after the end of the year, when otherwise engaged, if she should be now and then invited by he
r first husband to come and see him, she should put aside her present gain, and go to him for the night.

  Such is the mode of temporary marriage among courtesans, and of increasing their loveliness, and their value in the eyes of others. What has been said about them should also be understood to apply to the daughters of dancing women, whose mothers should give them only to such persons as are likely to become useful to them in various ways. Thus end the ways of making oneself lovely in the eyes of others.

  If a man, after anointing his lingam with a mixture of the powders of the white thorn apple, the long pepper and, the black pepper, and honey, engages in sexual union with a woman, he makes her subject to his will.

  The application of a mixture of the leaf of the plant vatodbhranta, of the flowers thrown on a human corpse when carried out to be burnt, and the powder of the bones of the peacock, and of the jiwanjiva bird produces the same effect.

  The remains of a kite who has died a natural death, ground into powder, and mixed with cowach and honey, has also the same effect.

  Anointing oneself with an ointment made of the plant emblica myrabolans has the power of subjecting women to one's will.

  If a man cuts into small pieces the sprouts of the vajnasunhi plant, and dips them into a mixture of red arsenic and sulphur, and then dries them seven times, and applies this powder mixed with honey to his lingam, he can subjugate a woman to his will directly that he has had sexual union with her, or if, by burning these very sprouts at night and looking at the smoke, he sees a golden moon behind, he will then be successful with any woman; or if he throws some of the powder of these same sprouts mixed with the excrement of a monkey upon a maiden, she will not be given in marriage to anybody else.

  If pieces of the arris root are dressed with the oil of the mango, and placed for six months in a hole made in the trunk of the sisu tree, and are then taken out and made up into an ointment, and applied to the lingam, this is said to serve as the means of subjugating women.

  If the bone of a camel is dipped into the juice of the plant eclipta prostata, and then burnt, and the black pigment produced from its ashes is placed in a box also made of the bone of a camel, and applied together with antimony to the eye lashes with a pencil also made of the bone of a camel, then that pigment is said to be very pure, and wholesome for the eyes, and serves as a means of subjugating others to the person who uses it. The same effect can be produced by black pigment made of the bones of hawks, vultures, and peacocks. Thus end the ways of subjugating others to one's own will.

  Now the means of increasing sexual vigour are as follows

  A man obtains sexual vigour by drinking milk mixed with sugar, the root of the uchchata plant, the piper chaba, and liquorice.

  Drinking milk, mixed with sugar, and having the testicle of a ram or a goat boiled in it, is also productive of vigour.

  The drinking of the juice of the hedysarum gangeticum, the kuili, and the kshirika plant mixed with milk, produces the same effect.

  The seed of the long pepper along with the seeds of the sanseviera roxburghiana, and the hedysarum gangeticum plant, all pounded together, and mixed with milk, is productive of a similar result.

  According to ancient authors, if a man pounds the seeds or roots of the trapa bispinosa, the kasurika, the tuscan jasmine, and liquorice, together with the kshirakapoli (a kind of onion), and puts the powder into milk mixed with sugar and ghee, and having boiled the whole mixture on a moderate fire, drinks the paste so formed, he will be able to enjoy innumerable women.

  In the same way, if a man mixes rice with the eggs of the sparrow, and having boiled this in milk, adds to it ghee and honey, and drinks as much of it as necessary, this will produce the same effect.

  If a man takes the outer covering of sesamum seeds, and soaks them with the eggs of sparrows, and then, having boiled them in milk, mixed with sugar and ghee, along with the fruits of the trapa bispinosa and the kasurika plant, and adding to it the flour of wheat and beans, and then drinks this composition, he is said to be able to enjoy many women.

  If ghee, honey, sugar and licorice in equal quantities, the juice of the fennel plant, and milk are mixed together, this nectar-like composition is said to be holy, and provocative of sexual vigor, a preservative of life, and sweet to the taste.

  The drinking of a paste composed of the asparagus racemosus, the shvadaushtra plant, the guduchi plant, the long pepper, and licorice, boiled in milk, honey, and ghee, in the spring, is said to have the same effect as the above.

  Boiling the asparagus racemosus, and the shvadaushtra plant, along with the pounded fruits of the premna spinose in water, and drinking the same, is said to act in the same way.

  Drinking boiled ghee, or clarified butter, in the morning during the spring season, is said to be beneficial to health and strength and agreeable to the taste.

  If the powder of the seed of the shvadaushtra plant and the flower of barley are mixed together in equal parts, and a portion of it, i.e. two palas in weight, is eaten every morning on getting up, it has the same effect as the preceding recipe.”

  As you can probably see, most of these recipes are outrageous and foolish, though some state that the effectiveness of them cannot be compared. Modern day medicine doesn’t offer much of an option for men looking to enlarge the size of their penis, so recipes such as these give hope to men who aren’t as well-endowed as others and who are ashamed.

  Now, switching back over to modern times, there are a lot of modern day aphrodisiacs and toys that can be used to spice up the sex life in the bedroom outside of outrageous and difficult concoctions. Some proven aphrodisiac foods are:

  Oysters – who would have thought? They contain high amounts of zinc that help with fertility along with a wide range of amino acids that are said to aid in the arousal of the individual.

  Chili peppers are another unexpected aphrodisiac, they are said to be the food of love because of their bright, red color. This food also mimics how one feels when aroused by speeding up the heart rate and causing you to perspire; both of which happen when one is aroused.

  Avocado is another aphrodisiac due to the high amounts of Vitamin E. It is unclear how or when the arousal occurs with this food but the rich yet mild taste makes it easily morphed to taste like nearly anything it’s added to.

  We all know about the sexual effects of chocolate. Many have said that consuming chocolate actually gives people the feeling of being in love. Chocolate releases dopamine into the body, creating a euphoric sensation upon consumption. This is often why chocolate is used in the bedroom during foreplay as a syrup or a chocolate powder.

  Bananas are said to be aphrodisiacs as well due to the triggering of testosterone production in males and the elevation of energy due to the high amounts of potassium and Vitamin B. Not only is this food healthy for you, it can also be consumed a variety of different ways.

  Another fun ingredient to use in the bedroom that is also arousing is whipped cream. We aren’t talking about the cheaper, zero calorie whipped cream either. You want the rich, real whipped cream that you either make yourself or purchase from your local grocer.

  Pine nuts and pumpkin seeds are surprising aphrodisiacs as well. Both high in vitamins and minerals that aid in sexual functioning such as zinc and magnesium, these nuts are easily incorporated into a variety of different recipes due to their milk flavors.

  Among other aphrodisiac foods are honey, arugula, watermelon, coffee, figs, strawberries, artichokes, chai tea, cherries, pomegranate, red wine, salmon, walnuts, and vanilla.

  Moving on to sex toys; today there exists more sex toys and variety than ever before. With the emergence of extreme, lifestyle sex toys in the form of robotic like women that not only move in sexual motions but also speak and have flesh like skin covering them. Some men keep these robots in their home as replacements to women, though these are extreme cases. More regular sex toys involve a variety of different items like the “cock ring”.

  This ring can be purchased as a one-tim
e use ring or multiple use. Some of the rings are simply made to squeeze the male penis to keep more blood in the shaft which is especially helpful for men who have difficulty maintaining an erection. The ring helps to keep blood in the shaft and can also vibrate if the vibrating model is chosen. When the ring vibrates, the women can feel it when the male is inside of her adding extra sensation to the act of intercourse. Aside from aiding in the sustainment of an erection, these rings also give the man more sensation because of the heightened blood flow to his penis.

  Dildos and vibrators can be used by both men and women during sexual intercourse. Dildos don’t normally vibrate but they simulate the shape and feel of a real life penis. Vibrators can be small or shaped like a male penis while also having the option to vibrate or rotate. Some of these toys have grooves, notches and lumps on them for added sensations. Men can insert these items into women either vaginally or anally during foreplay or intercourse and women can insert these into the male anally during intercourse if he desires. These toys are great when the male isn’t in the mood for intercourse because he can still help the woman climax by inserting the dildo or vibrator inside of her.

  Another male toy is the prostate plug; it’s a butt plug that is inserted into the male anally and intended to touch or rub against his prostate during intercourse or masturbation which can be highly pleasurable. Some of these prostate plugs even vibrate, creating a nearly unbearable euphoria. Butt plugs can also be used by women to help loosen the anus for penetration or longer ones can be inserted to touch the g-spot through the colon during intercourse. One thing to be careful with is making sure that what you are using is actually intended to be inserted anally.

  Devices and toys that are created to be inserted anally come with a safety type guard that prevents them from being sucked up into your anus. Because your rectum is an exit rather than an entrance, it acts as a vacuum when anything foreign is inserted (which is why you are able to hold in your feces if you aren’t near a bathroom). Muscle memory will assume that the foreign object is feces and will suck it back up into the rectum, causing a dangerous and potentially lethal situation if damage or tearing occurs. Only insert anally if it says it can be inserted anally.