He tilts his body at a slight angle to enter her and while doing so supports himself with his hands propped up behind him. Ideal for anytime/anywhere sex, but does require a certain degree of strength and energy from both the man and woman.

In contemporary translations, this has been inaccurately rendered as "eunuch" – or, a castrated man in a harem, [note 2] and the royal harem did not exist in India before the Turkish presence in the ninth century. One of the enduring appeals of the Kamasutra is that is goes beyond the usual missionary or doggy style positions and provides guidance on how to embrace, where each partner stands, sits or lies, where to put or pull legs, knees, chest and arms. The man sits on the edge of the bed with his feet on the floor while the woman crouches (like a frog) on his lap.He also rejects traditional patriarchal line of ancient texts that recommend cruel punishment for any woman who sleeps with a man other than her husband. Sex is the ultimate workout, so why not take a book that riffs on the Kama Sutra positions and explains how to reap the maximum fitness benefits from each position? The teachings and discussions found in the Kamasutra extensively incorporate ancient Hindu mythology and legends.

The second are empirical studies of the type found in biology, physiology and medical texts, focusing on the physiology and objective observations, sans emotions. Kama – signifies desire, wish, passion, emotions, pleasure of the senses, the aesthetic enjoyment of life, affection, or love, with or without sexual connotations.Kamasutra was considered to have been put together from a 150 chapter manuscript that had itself been distilled from 300 chapters which in turn came from a compilation of some 100,000 chapters of text. The man then slides in between her legs with his legs stretched out so they are either side of her head.