Vātsyāyana on Anniversary
India
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Kama is also learnt from the Kama Sutra (aphorisms on [[love) and from the practice of citizens.
In short, nothing tends to increase love so much as the effects of marking with the nails, and biting.
Though a man loves a girl ever so much, he never succeeds in winning her without a great deal of talking.
Anything may take place at any time, for love does not care for time or order.
Whatever things may be done by one of the lovers to the other, the same should be returned by the other, if she strikes him he should also strike her in return.
Love does not care for time or order.
Women are hardly ever known in their true light, though they may love men, or become indifferent towards them, may give them delight, or abandon them, or may extract from them all the wealth that they possess.
...variety is necessary in love, so love is to be produced by means of variety.