![]() The man is called a ‘hare’, ‘bull’, or ‘stallion’, according to the size of his sexual organ a woman, however, is called a ‘doe’, ‘mare’, or ‘elephant cow’. The passage describing genital size, and its significance, is placed at a critical moment at the very start of the part of the Kamasutra describing the sexual act: And here again, as in so many of the other apparent parallels, we veer back and forth between conceptions of what is perceived as part of nature or part of culture. One link between ancient India and the contemporary world is male anxiety about penis size, which remains a prevalent obsession on the Internet. We have noted the ways in which the Kamasutra veers between attitudes that strike the contemporary reader as reasonable and others that seem to find no parallels in the modern world. This excerpt from The Mare’s Trap tells us how much size mattered in ancient India. From alternatives to Viagra to the question of why there’s such an overwhelmingly zoological aura to sex in Kamasutra, sex is a complicated but pleasurable affair in Vatsyayana’s masterpiece. In The Mare’s Trap, Doniger writes about Kamasutra, analysing different facets of the ancient text and showing how it is much more than a list of improbable sexual positions. Editor's note: Wendy Doniger, author of The Hindus and the pin-up favourite of Hindutva trolls, is back. ![]()
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