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in the woman, which appears to pervert the act of intercourse, with the result of sensualizing and coarsening the woman.
    Within the duller tract of the vagina, after a half-hour, or, still better, an hour of tender, gentle, self-restrained coition, the feminine, womanly, maternal sensibilities of the bride will be aroused, and the magnetism exchanged then will be healthful and satisfying to both parties. A woman’s orgasm is as important for her health as a man’s is for his. And the bridegroom who hastens through the act without giving the bride the necessary half-hour or hour to come to her own climax, is not only acting selfishly; he is also sowing the seeds of future ill-health and permanent invalidism in his wife.
    As to the bride, I would say: bear in mind that it is part of your wifely duty to perform pelvic movements during the embrace, riding your husband’s organ gently, and, at times, passionately, with various movements, up and down, sideways, and with a semi-rotary movement, resembling the movement of the thread of a screw upon a screw. These movements will add greatly to your own passion and your own pleasure, but they should not be dwelt in thought for this purpose. They should be performed for the express purpose of conferring pleasure upon your husband, and you should carefully study the results of various movements, gently and tenderly performed, upon him.
    How considerate
    Dr Alex Comfort, The Joy of Sex (1972)
    Most girls are now carefully stretched beforehand by their considerate boyfriends.
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Eleven
KAMA SUTRA CHAMELEON

    From India, thanks to an English adventurer straight out of Ripping Yarns , comes a book that has become a legend of complex Oriental couplings and non-stop priapic action.
    The Kama Sutra is Britain’s best-known love manual, though relatively few people actually saw the book during its 80-year English publication ban or have bothered to read it since.
    Sir Richard Burton, the Victorian explorer, linguist, ethnologist, diplomat and soldier (rather than the Welsh actor), is one of history’s most eminent and dedicated manual men. Among his great adventures, he co-discovered Lake Tanganyika, laid the groundwork for the discovery of the source of the Nile and was the first white man ever to penetrate the sacred Islamic inner sanctum of Mecca (he would have been torn apart had his disguise been rumbled). He also claimed to be a bastard descendant of Louis XIV. Burton and his literary sidekick, F.F. ‘Bunny’ Arbuthnot, translated some of India and Persia’s great sex texts into English, though their efforts were almost completelybanned during Burton’s lifetime. Their three most important works were the ancient Kama Sutra and the Ananga Ranga , both from India, and Persia’s Perfumed Garden.
    The greatest was the Kama Sutra , which Burton published privately in 1883, hoping that the book’s low profile and small controlled circulation would keep it below the censor’s sights. Two years later, he published his translation of the Ananga Ranga the same way. At the time, Burton was developing a heroic reputation as a great foreign adventurer, so why did he risk his good name on works that could be derided as smut? Primarily he was obsessed with Eastern culture, and not least its sexual mores. He also hoped that books would help to fund his lifestyle – he was a prolific author and publisher of travel memoirs. There was also a strong streak of sexual evangelism: in the notes to his translation of another Persian book, The Thousand Nights and a Night , Burton parodied Western attitudes with the story of a bridegroom who entered the bedchamber to find his bride chloroformed and a note stuck on her pillow: ‘Mamma says you’re to do what you like.’ Burton believed a dose of Eastern salts might help to clear Britain’s blockage.
    Middle-class Victorian society had developed a surreal talent for perceiving vice, scandal, fornication and depravity wherever it looked. It was