what is the purpose of kamasutra ?

Answer 1

The Kama Sutra is the best-known of ancient love manuals, a 1,500-year-old Indian text which explicitly details both the mechanics of lovemaking and a code of behavior which applies to everything surrounding it. Originally translated from Sanskrit in 1883 by Sir Richard F. Burton, the intrepid Victorian explorer who also translated The Arabian Nights and discovered the headwaters of the Nile, it is thought to have been compiled from a much older oral tradition by
Vatsyayana, a Benares religious student and wise man living in 5th Century India.

Meaning literally “aphorisms on love,” the Kama Sutra is divided into seven parts, 36 chapters, and 1,250 verses. Beyond the numerous sexual positions it delineates (“Cobra,” “Black Bee,” “Tigress”), it was also the lifestyle magazine or self-help text of its day, recounting kissing
techniques, recipes for aphrodisiacs and a host of advice on seduction, courting, marriage and courtesans – not to mention “classes of women fit and unfit for congress.” It also offered instruction in “the 64 arts”: poetry, music, dance, art, conversation, homemaking...etc

Answer 2

Even 1500 years ago ancient people even realized that sex gets boring with the same positions everytime and realized that they had to find and demonstrate ways to spice up their sex lives. That was their only form of entertainment because there was no electricity modern day conveniences or anything. What else did they have to do when they came home from hunting.

Answer 3

Sexual positions are important for several reasons: 1) Changing positions often can prolong the act of sex 2) Certain positions may be more pleasurable than others

Answer 4

Kamasutram, generally known to the Western world as Kama Sutra, is an ancient Indian text widely considered to be the standard work on love in Sanskrit literature. A portion of the work deals with human sexual behavior.
Kama is a Sanskrit word that has the general meanings of "wish", "desire", and "intention" in addition to the specific meanings of "pleasure" and "(sexual) love". Used as a proper name it refers to Kama, the Hindu god of Love.
The Mallanaga Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra has 36 chapters, organized into 7 parts.

1. Introductory
Chapters on contents of the book, three aims and priorities of life, the acquisition of knowledge, conduct of the well-bred townsman, reflections on intermediaries who assist the lover in his enterprises (5 chapters).

2. On sexual union
Chapters on stimulation of desire, embraces types, caressing and kisses, marking with nails, biting and marking with teeth, on copulation (positions), slapping by hand and corresponding moaning, virile behavior in women, superior coition and oral sex, preludes and conclusions to the game of love. It describes 64 types of sexual acts (10 chapters).
Artistic depiction of a sex position. Kama Sutra did not have illustrative images, part 2 of the work describes different sex positions.

3. About the acquisition of a wife
Chapters on forms of marriage, relaxing the girl, obtaining the girl, managing alone, union by marriage (5 chapters).

4. About a wife
Chapters on conduct of the only wife and conduct of the chief wife and other wives (2 chapters).

5. About the wives of other people
Chapters on behavior of woman and man, encounters to get acquainted, examination of sentiments, the task of go-between, the king's pleasures, behavior in the gynoecium (6 chapters).

6. About courtesans
Chapters on advice of the assistants on the choice of lovers, looking for a steady lover, ways of making money, renewing friendship with a former lover, occasional profits, profits and losses (6 chapters).

7. On the means of attracting others to one's self
Chapters on improving physical attractions, arousing a weakened sexual power (2 chapters).

Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamasutra

Answer 5

It was brought to the attention of the japenese I believe, it was to make their sex life more interesting, cause they had multiple partners, and I sure it got boring doing it the same way every time, me and my soon to be husband have done it in many different ways, it makes our relationship a lot more fun and interesting.

Answer 6

In India,it's considered at par with other treatises on life and dharma,the basic premise being knowledge and learning.

Answer 7

is a sexual guide that stresses connection not sexual postions like most people think . it does have different sexual positions but it much more than that it teaches kissing, four play and other things related to sex.