Hi all, please enjoy this excerpt from The Kama Sutra, which dates to 400 BC. I have posted the audio at r/gonewildaudio and on my podcast, the 500 Word Fuck. Enjoy ❣️
*CHAPTER 4: ON PRESSING, OR MARKING, OR SCRATCHING WITH THE NAILS.*
*The places that are to be pressed with the nails are as follows: the arm pit, the throat, the breasts, the lips, the jaghana [loins], or middle parts of the body, and the thighs. But Suvarnanabha is of opinion that when the impetuosity of passion is excessive, then these places need not be considered.*
*The qualities of good nails are that they should be bright, well set, clean, entire, convex, soft, and glossy in appearance.*
*When a person presses the chin, the breasts, the lower lip, or the jaghana of another so softly that no scratch or mark is left, but only the hair on the body becomes erect from the touch of the nails, and the nails themselves make a sound, it is called a “sounding or pressing with the nails.”
This pressing is used in the case of a young girl when her lover shampoos her, scratches her head, and wants to trouble or frighten her.*
*The curved mark with the nails, which is impressed on the neck and the breasts, is called the “half moon.”*
*When the half moons are impressed opposite to each other, it is called a “circle.” This mark with the nails is generally made on the navel, the small cavities about the buttocks, and on the joints of the thigh.*
*A mark in the form of a small dash, and which can be made on any part of the body, is called a “line.”*
*This same line, when it is curved, and made on the breast, is called a “tiger’s nail.”*
*When a curved mark is made on the breast by means of the five nails, it is called a “peacock’s foot.” This mark is made with the object of being praised, for it requires a great deal of skill to make it properly.*
*When five marks with the nails are made close to one another near the nipple of the breast, it is called “the jump of a hare.”*
*A mark made on the breast or on the hips in the form of a leaf of the blue lotus, is called the “leaf of a blue lotus.”*
*When a person is going on a journey, and makes a mark on the thighs, or on the breast, it is called a “token of remembrance.” On such an occasion three or four lines are impressed close to one another with the nails.*
*Here ends the marking with the nails. Marks of other kinds than the above may also be made with the nails, for the ancient authors say, that as there are innumerable degrees of skill among men (the practice of this art being known to all), so there are innumerable ways of making these marks. And as pressing or marking with the nails is independent of love, no one can say with certainty how many different kinds of marks with the nails do actually exist. The reason of this is, Vatsyayana says, that as variety is necessary in love, so love is to be produced by means of variety. It is on this account that courtezans, who are well acquainted with various ways and means, become so desirable, for if variety is sought in all the arts and amusements, such as archery and others, how much more should it be sought after in the present case.*
*There are also some verses on the subject, as follows:*
*”The love of a woman who sees the marks of nails on the private parts of her body, even though they are old and almost worn out, becomes again fresh and new. If there be no marks of nails to remind a person of the passages of love, then love is lessened in the same way as when no union takes place for a long time.”*
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