Scratching during lovemaking
Heightening the senses to intensify sexual satisfaction is commonplace today although the Kama Sutra did not cover the sensual art of massage for the ancients. It delved into the more animalistic practices of biting (which we have already mentioned) scratching, striking blows and pulling hair during lovemaking. These practices can be as low key or as kinky as you care to make them.
The Marks of Love.
Marking the body with the nails, during lovemaking, can either be a private or a public act depending on which part of the anatomy you mark. Vatsyayana recommends the armpits, the throat, the breasts, the lips, the middle of the trunk and the thighs but if you and your partner enjoy it then why ration yourselves. Needless to say that Kama Sutra does not advise breaking the skin.
In the throws on intense passion you could try scratching your partners back as you hold them close to you, or you could claw at their chest like a wild animal. Vatsyayana writes, “Nothing tends to increase love so much as the effects of marking with the nails and biting…pressing with the nails is not a usual thing except with those who are intensely passionate. It is employed by those to whom the practice is agreeable”
He also notes that angry sex and intoxicated sex are good times to employ these animal practices and it should come as a comfort to lovers everywhere that human behaviour really has not changed much over the centuries. Lovers were as temperamental and passionate in ancient times as they are today and felt as compelled to leave their marks on their lovers’ bodies.
The Blows of Love
Kama Sutra describes gentle blows to a lover, during the heat of passion, as a harmless ritual and emphasis is on gentle strikes, as these are not meant to cause pain or injury but to punctuate lovemaking with expressions of excitement.
"…the shoulders, the head, the space between the breasts, the back, the middle and sides of the trunk" can be hit gently to stimulate a range of feeling and passion.
Hair Play
Hair is a well-documented visual stimulus and plays an important part in arousing physical attraction but it can also be used to caress a lover’s naked body. Clean, perfumed locks playfully sweeping across tingling flesh is a real turn on. Lovers often instinctively run their fingers through each other’s hair in an intimate embrace because it is a source of sensual delight.
Kama Sutra notes that when women practice the art of “dressing the hair with unguents and perfumes and braiding it” their efforts do not go unnoticed by the men.
Caressing and gently tugging pubic hair can also be an enjoyable tease and heighten foreplay and build anticipation.
The Marks of Love.
Marking the body with the nails, during lovemaking, can either be a private or a public act depending on which part of the anatomy you mark. Vatsyayana recommends the armpits, the throat, the breasts, the lips, the middle of the trunk and the thighs but if you and your partner enjoy it then why ration yourselves. Needless to say that Kama Sutra does not advise breaking the skin.
In the throws on intense passion you could try scratching your partners back as you hold them close to you, or you could claw at their chest like a wild animal. Vatsyayana writes, “Nothing tends to increase love so much as the effects of marking with the nails and biting…pressing with the nails is not a usual thing except with those who are intensely passionate. It is employed by those to whom the practice is agreeable”
He also notes that angry sex and intoxicated sex are good times to employ these animal practices and it should come as a comfort to lovers everywhere that human behaviour really has not changed much over the centuries. Lovers were as temperamental and passionate in ancient times as they are today and felt as compelled to leave their marks on their lovers’ bodies.
The Blows of Love
Kama Sutra describes gentle blows to a lover, during the heat of passion, as a harmless ritual and emphasis is on gentle strikes, as these are not meant to cause pain or injury but to punctuate lovemaking with expressions of excitement.
"…the shoulders, the head, the space between the breasts, the back, the middle and sides of the trunk" can be hit gently to stimulate a range of feeling and passion.
Hair Play
Hair is a well-documented visual stimulus and plays an important part in arousing physical attraction but it can also be used to caress a lover’s naked body. Clean, perfumed locks playfully sweeping across tingling flesh is a real turn on. Lovers often instinctively run their fingers through each other’s hair in an intimate embrace because it is a source of sensual delight.
Kama Sutra notes that when women practice the art of “dressing the hair with unguents and perfumes and braiding it” their efforts do not go unnoticed by the men.
Caressing and gently tugging pubic hair can also be an enjoyable tease and heighten foreplay and build anticipation.
