Reading the “Kamasutra”
The strange & the familiar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9685780 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wendy Doniger (American Academy of Dermatology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 136 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 66-78 |
| Publication date | 2007-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Daedalus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/daed.2007.136.2.66 |
| OpenAlex | W2055379097 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Ihe Kamasutra is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of erotic love, and one of the oldest in the world. It is not, as most people think, a book about the positions in sexual intercourse. It is a book about the art of living finding a partner, maintaining power in a mar riage, committing adultery, living as or with a courtesan, using drugs and al so about the positions in sexual inter course. It was composed in Sanskrit, the literary language of ancient India, prob ably sometime in the second half of the third century of the Common Era, in North India, perhaps in Pataliputra (near the present city of Patna, in Bihar). Virtually nothing is known about the author, Vatsyayana Mallanaga, other than his name and what little we learn
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |