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SOME EASTERN ATTITUDES ABOUT SEXUALITY. KAMA SUTRA
Many teachings in the Eastern world emphasize the naturalness of sexuality and its spiritual potential. Sexual ecstasy is often seen as a way to spiritual awakening, understanding of self, and transcendence. Sexual pleasure and ecstasy are celebrated by both women and men. Human sexuality is regarded as an integrated part of the daily life of the whole person. It is considered a necessary element of good health.
Many women and men are looking for ways to explore the spiritual potential of their sexuality. The ancient East offers us some models for human sexuality that are different from those that have become familiar in the West.
The Kama Sutra
In ancient India, the Hindus believed that there were three aims in life: virtue (dharma), prosperity (artha), and love (kama).The Dharma Shastra is a compilation of teachings on ethics; the Artha Shastra is a treatise on politics and economy; and the Kama Shastra is a discourse on love, eroticism, and the other pleasures of life. The Kama Shastras were first compiled into a written text, the Kama Sutra, nearly 2,700 years ago, when they were already 1,000 years old.
The Kama Sutra is an instructional work that describes various ways of obtaining pleasure. It describes the duties of lovers and marriage partners, whether of the same or other gender, and extols the virtues of marriage for love and the advantages of having only one wife. Much of the text describes various lovemaking techniques, but the fundamental message is that “friendship and love must be practiced between equals, neither with superiors nor with inferiors.”
The first English version of the Kama Sutra was first widely published in 1960. It became a kind of handbook for the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Written and rewritten throughout the long history of India, however, the version that was popularized in the We: reflects Moslem attitudes of the tenth century more than the origin; Hindu views that inspired it. In the popular version, gender roles are much more delineated, women are subordinate to men, marriage an childbirth are the assumed goals of lovemaking, and same-sex love and marriage have been edited from the text.
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