Kama Sutra on Kissing

Kamasutra, the treatise on lovemaking is hailed as the best book one could ever read on sex. The sole purpose of sex is not just procreation as mentioned by the West. India was the first country in the world to acknowledge different ways in which one could take and receive sex just for the sake of pleasure. Kamasutra has given some of the best tips one can ever find on kissing.

The Kamasutra says that kissing, clawing and biting softly should be done moderately and done alternately during the act. The following are the erogenous zones in a woman which can induce a feeling of sensuality in a woman: the forehead, the eyes, the cheeks, the throat, the breasts, the lips, the navel, the buttocks, the arms, the genitalia and the interior of the mouth.
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Kissing a young girl can be classified into three types of kisses:

• The nominal kiss
• The throbbing kiss
• The touching kiss

When a young woman merely touches the mouth of her lover with her own, but does not do anything more, it is called the 'nominal kiss'.

When a girl, in a flirtatious playful nature, touches the lip that is pressed into her mouth, and with that thing shifts her lower lip, but not the upper one, it is called the 'throbbing kiss'.

When a girl touches her lover's lip with her tongue, and with eyes closed, places her hands on those of her lover, it is called the 'touching kiss'.

Apart from Vatsayana who was the main author, the others have also given a list of other types of kisses. They are:

• The straight kiss
• The bent kiss
• The turned kiss
• The pressed kiss
• The greatly pressed kiss

The 'straight kiss' is when the lips of two lovers are brought in direct contact with each other.

The ‘bent kiss’ is one when the heads of two lovers are bent toward each other and the kissing happens in that bent or leaning position.
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The ‘turned kiss’ is when one of the mates turns up the face of the other by holding the head and chin, and then starts with kissing .

The fifth one would be the ‘pressed kiss’ which is when the lower lips is pressed against the one of the lover with great intensity.

There is also a fifth kind of kiss called the 'greatly pressed kiss', which takes place by holding the lower lip between two fingers, and then, after touching it with the tongue, pressing it with great force with the lip.

Kissing is a playful game of love where a bet is laid to find out who will get hold of the lips of the other first. If the woman loses, she has to pretend to cry and feel bad. She should shake her hands with her lover and move away from him complaining that there should be another bet. If she again loses, she should pretend to be all the more upset. When her lover is sleeping, she should catch his lower lip, and hold it in her teeth, so that it does not slip away. She should joke, make a noise, tease him, dance about and say anything in jest and move her eyebrows and roll her eyes.

The above were the kisses for a girl. Let’s look at the kisses which befit a woman. When a man kisses the upper lip of a woman, while she in return kisses his lower lip, it is called the 'kiss of the upper lip'. When one of them takes both the lips of the other between his or her own, it is called 'a clasping kiss'. A woman, however, only takes this kind of kiss from a man who has no moustache. During this kiss, if one of them touches the teeth, the tongue, and the palate of the other, with his or her tongue, it is called the 'fighting of the tongue'.

According to the different parts of the body which are kissed, there are four different kinds of kisses: moderate, contracted, pressed, and soft. When a woman gazes at her man when he is asleep and gives him a kiss to show her amorous intention, it is called a 'kiss that kindles love'.

When a woman kisses her lover while he is working or while he is arguing with her or while his attention is diverted to another object or a woman, it is called a 'kiss that turns away'.

When a lover coming home late at night kisses his woman, who is asleep on her bed, in order to show her his lust, it is called a 'kiss that awakens'. A woman can pretend to be asleep or take a nap so that she could appear sexually attractive and available to her man, so that she can get his interest and respect.

When a person kisses an image, figure or a child sitting on his lap, in the presence of the person beloved by him, it is called a 'transferred kiss'.

When a person kisses the reflection of the person he loves in water, on a wall or in a mirror it is called a 'kiss showing the intention'.

When at night at a play or in a congregation of men, a man comes up to a woman and kisses a finger of her hand when she is standing or kisses the toe of her foot when she is sitting, it is called the ‘demonstrative kiss.’ This kiss is also applicable when a woman washes her lover’s body, places her face on his thigh, in a sleepy mood, so as to arouse his passion and kisses his thigh or toe.