KAMA SUTRA : PART2-CHAPTER -9 Of the way how to begin and how to end the congress. Different kinds of congress and love quarrels

In the pleasure-room, decorated with flowers, and fragrant with perfumes,
attended by his friends and servants, the citizen should receive the woman,
who will come bathed and dressed, and will invite her to take refreshment and
to drink freely. He should then seat her on his left side, and holding her hair,
and touching also the end and knot of her garment, he should gently embrace
her with his right arm. They should then carry on an amusing conversation on

various subjects, and may also talk suggestively of things which would be
considered as coarse, or not to be mentioned generally in society. They may
then sing, either with or without gesticulations, and play on musical
instruments, talk about the arts, and persuade each other to drink. At last when
the woman is overcome with love and desire, the citizen should dismiss the
people that may be with him, giving them flowers, ointments, and betel leaves,
and then when the two are left alone, they should proceed as has been already
described in the previous chapters.
Such is the beginning of sexual union. At the end of the congress, the lovers
with modesty, and not looking at each other, should go separately to the
washing-room. After this, sitting in their own places, they should eat some betel
leaves, and the citizen should apply with his own hand to the body of the
woman some pure sandal wood ointment, or ointment of some other kind. He
should then embrace her with his left arm, and with agreeable words should
cause her to drink from a cup held in his own hand, or he may give her water to
drink. They can then eat sweetmeats, or anything else, according to their
likings and may drink fresh juice,1 soup, gruel, extracts of meat, sherbet, the
juice of mango fruits, the extract of the juice of the citron tree mixed with
sugar, or anything that may be liked in different countries, and known to be
sweet, soft, and pure. The lovers may also sit on the terrace of the palace or
house, and enjoy the moonlight, and carry on an agreeable conversation. At
this time, too, while the woman lies in his lap, with her face towards the moon,
the citizen should show her the different planets, the morning star, the polar
star, and the seven Rishis, or Great Bear.
This is the end of sexual union.

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