Kamasutra
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6 These tools are cool to the touch at the time of penetration, but during the sexual act they have the effect of sexual violence. The ones made of wood are just the opposite.
7 A certain woman may be fond of one particular thing, and so it is good to use ones made of wood, too.
8 It should be as wide as the erect penis, hollowed out inside, and fastened securely on the erect penis, like a second surface.
9 Two bracelets can be joined in a special way in three or four places.
11 Wrap around a string of beads made of something such as lead, as much as the circumference of the penis will allow.
12 It has a mouth at one end through which the penis enters and a slit on both sides for the string that ties it to the hips. It has rough, raised dots all over it. It is called a ‘coat of mail’ because it covers the entire penis. Both the ‘coat of mail’ and the ‘little net’ should be used with consideration of the length and circumference of the penis to which it is attached.*
13 Take the wooden garland and wind it around the penis so that it fits very tightly.
16 Someone skilled pulls back the foreskin to expose the glans, holds it back, and then cuts through the glans sideways so that there is an opening on both sides. Standing in the water stops the bleeding.
17 To keep the opening from closing up, he couples many times, because this produces an obstacle to the sense of self and so dispels the pain.
18 He cleans the wound.
21 He uses lead because it expands; and the lead knot, wrapped as if by a palm leaf, soon enlarges the opening.
22 He lubricates the opening in order to insert things in it.
24 The ‘round’ one has a little trough in the middle, in which a leather thong is attached; the ‘round on one side’ has, on the other side, a trough like an elongated eight-day old sliver of moon, in which a leather thong is attached; the ‘little mortar’ is narrow in the middle, where a leather thong is attached. Both the ‘little blossom’ and ‘the thorny’ should be inserted lengthwise; ‘the eight circles’ and ‘the spinning top’ should be inserted on an angle. Other objects may be used, too, and any means that give sexual pleasure. Attaching a leather thong to some of them prevents any harm from resulting from the act. As for individual preferences, one must determine the roughness of the vagina, according to its smooth, medium, or extremely rough quality, and choose a device of appropriate roughness; and, similarly, one must determine the softness of the vagina, and find devices appropriate to that softness.
25 Do not use anything else that comes from trees, just these insects. Hold the creatures with tweezers and press the stings hard against the sides of the penis. Let the penis hang down from the hole in the bed to make it longer.
26 When it has reached the size you want, use the cooling astringents, or else both the swelling and the pain will go on increasing.
33 The minute that he touches her, his penis will not stand up.
37 It opens her wide for one night.
43 Coat the flute by washing it, many times, inside and out, with water in which the herbs have been steeped.
54 They are forbidden for the particular places and people who are strongly cautioned against them.
55 This was said earlier [at 2.9.41].
56 He learned them from gurus and thought about them with his own intelligence.