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Book Review of Kama Sutra Of Vatsyayana

Kama Sutra Of Vatsyayana
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The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana ,written seventeen centuries ago,

has long been accepted as unique amongst the classical works on love and love making

Excellent edition of the famous Burton translation (1883) of this erotic classic from Sanskrit literature.

"After a perusal of the Hindoo work, the reader will understand the subject, at all events from a materialistic, realistic and practical point of view There can be no harm in making known to mankind generally certain matters intimately connected with their private, domestic and social life.

Alas! complete ignorance of them has unfortunately wrecked many a man and many a woman,

while a little knowledge of a great subject...might have enabled (them) to have understood many things which they believed to be quite incomprehensible...."