KARMA SUTRA

Part I: Introductory

• Chapter I. Preface
   

• Chapter II. Observations on the Three Worldly Attainments of Virtue, Wealth, and Love
   

• Chapter III. On the Study of the Sixty-Four Arts
   

• Chapter IV. On the Arrangements of a House, and Household Furniture; and About the Daily Life of a Citizen, His Companions, Amusements, Etc.
   

• Chapter V. About Classes of Women Fit and Unfit for Congress with the Citizen, and of Friends, and Messengers
   

Part II: On Sexual Union

• Chapter I. Kinds of Union According to Dimensions, Force of Desire, and Time; and on the Different Kinds of Love
   

• Chapter II. Of the Embrace
   

• Chapter III. On Kissing
   

• Chapter IV. On Pressing or Marking with the Nails
   

• Chapter V. On Biting, and the Ways of Love to be Employed with Regard to Women of Different Countries
   

• Chapter VI. On the Various Ways of Lying Down, and the Different Kinds of Congress
   

• Chapter VII. On the Various Ways of Striking, and of The Sounds Appropriate to Them
   

• Chapter VIII. About Females Acting the Part of Males
   

• Chapter IX. On Holding the Lingam in the Mouth
   

• Chapter X. How to Begin and How to End the Congress. Different Kinds of Congress, and Love Quarrels
   

Part III: About the Acquisition of a Wife

• Chapter I. Observations on Betrothal and Marriage
   

• Chaper II. About Creating Confidence In the Girl
   

• Chapter III. Courtship, and the Manifestation of the Feelings by Outward Signs and Deeds
   

• Chapter IV. On Things to be Done Only by the Man, and the Acquisition of the Girl Thereby. Also What is to be Done by a Girl to Gain Over a Man and Subject Him to Her
   

• Chapter V. On the Different Forms of Marriage
   

Part IV: About a Wife

• Chapter I. On the Manner of Living of a Virtuous Woman, and of Her Behaviour During the Absence of Her Husband
   

• Chapter II. On the Conduct of the Eldest Wife Towards the Other Wives of her Husband, and of the Younger Wife Towards the Elder Ones...
   

Part V: About the Wives of Other People

• Chapter I. On the Characteristics of Men And Women...
   

• Chapter II. About Making Acquaintance with the Woman, and of the Efforts to Gain Her Over
   

• Chapter III. Examination of the State of a Woman's Mind
   

• Chapter IV. The Business of a Go-Between
   

• Chapter V. On the Love of Persons in Authority with the Wives of Other People
   

• Chapter VI. About the Women of the Royal Harem, and of the Keeping of One's Own Wife
   

Part VI: About Courtesans

• Introductory Remarks
   

• Chapter I. Of the Causes of a Courtesan Resorting to Men...
   

• Chapter II. Of a Courtesan Living With a Man as His Wife
   

• Chapter III. Of the Means of getting Money...
   

• Chapter IV. About a Reunion with a Former Lover
   

• Chapter V. Of Different Kinds of Gain
   

• Chapter VI. Of Gains and Losses, Attendant Gains and Losses, and Doubts; and Lastly, the Different Kinds of Courtesans
   

Part VII: On The Means of Attracting Others to One's Self

• Chapter I. On Personal Adornment, Subjugating the Hearts of Others, and of Tonic Medicines
   

• Chapter II. Of The Means of Exciting Desire, and of the Ways of Enlarging the Lingam. Miscellaneous Experiments and Receipts
   

• Concluding Remarks

SEXUAL POSITIONS OF THE KARMA SUTRA

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