Volume 1

Sexual life in ancient India : a study in the comparative history of Indian culture / by Johann Jakob Meyer.

  • Johann Jakob Meyer
Date:
1930
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Credit: Sexual life in ancient India : a study in the comparative history of Indian culture / by Johann Jakob Meyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    e. The man s seed sent off by bird-poSl to her that is ready for fertilization ........ f. Commerce with her that is Hill unclean stridly forbidden VII.—THE PLEASURES OF SEX {SURATA) a. The woman''s joy and vigour in the pleasures of love b. Punishment for disturbing the surata {death during the sexual embrace') ....... c. The joys of love as a healing herb ..... d. Means for heightening the powers and heroes in Strength of love e. Uncleanness of the surata ...... f. Regulation of the pleasures of sex {not in public, not outside the vulva, not by day or at certain other times, not with another woman than the wife) ..... g. Punishments awaiting the lewd man in this life and in the other ......... h. The dreadfulness of intercourse with the teacher s wife or with a woman of higher caSte ..... i. Other details : not to look on a naked Stranger woman, atonement for nightly pollution, a thoughtful hero of chaSlity, etc. ........ VIII.—THE SEXUAL CONTINENCE OF MAN a. Value of chasity in general ...... b. The ascetic's complete sexual denial, its dignity, and power, its difficulty, and the means of keeping it c. The cur her of his senses who was seduced by the woman d. The ascetic who was set in an orgasm through the sight only of a lovely woman ....... IX.—THE PLEASURES OF VENAL LOVE: THE PUBLIC WOMAN a. Prostitution in full flower ...... b. The harlot a necessity of life ; an important part of social life ; she accompanies in war, the hunt, and other diversions c. The woman of pleasure as an ornament to the festival, escort of honour for and attendant on the important gueSl d. Condemnation of the venal woman ..... xi PAGE 223 225 229 233 238 239 240 241 246 251 256 258 258 260 26l 264 266 268 273
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