Thinking about Vatsyayana’s Kama Sutra…

Vatsyayana’s conception of sex is one of an act which is an end unto itself. The use of sex is that it isn’t used for the efforts of any end but only an act which is to be enjoyed. It is multi-representational as well. In the documentary heterosexuality is assumed, being a prerequisite of simple procreation. In the Kama Sutra sex can be vast, with many people, varying sexes, and other aporetic consequences. Vatsyayana puts forward not simply an idea of sex, but an understanding of pleasure through the commonly assumed sexual organs, but not limited to. It seems that the Occident cultures position these pleasures as sexual in an effort to finalize an end for the pleasure, not keeping the idea of pleasure as a sustaining effort on its own. The Western mind seeks to aim pleasure as an indirect result of a function and in effect deprecates it so it can become commodified and calculated.