Friday, April 6, 2012

I wish the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana was taught in school. The good simple wisdom of it would have helped in those awkward college years, at least for some of us. Just its practical stuff alone, besides the poetry, like here from Chapter One of Part Five: "The causes of a woman rejecting the addresses of a man are as follows: ..." And what does follow is a beautiful list of things I did wrong, I've done wrong, things I probably still do wrong. Now to most what follows is simple common sense, but I think the underlining would serve some help reminding young men and women how to act and relate, arcane as some of the old treatise is. Even culturally removed from us, it's still a helpful guide.

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