Gathered from museums and private collections around the world-as well as the author’s own collection of over 300,000 photographs-these rare images clearly illustrate all 64 sexual positions and the erotic instructions set forth in the Kama Sutra. In this complete and illustrated guide Lance Dane accompanies the Kama Sutra text with 269 illustrations and great works of art that encompass coins, palm leaf manuscripts, sculptures, ancient toys, jewelry, architecture, ivory combs, birch bark, cloth, paintings, frescoes, and scrolls. Written almost 2,000 years ago, the Kama Sutra deals with all aspects of sexual life, including the principles and techniques of sexual pleasure and how to best achieve ecstatic expression of life’s beauty. The erotic sentiments described in the Hindu love classic the Kama Sutra constitute the most famous work on sex ever created. Composed by one of the world’s foremost scholars of the Kama Sutra and Indian art.

The first complete translation to illustrate all 64 sexual postures described in the Kama Sutra.A fully illustrated Kama Sutra from the extraordinary and rare art collection of Lance Dane