the Ananga Ranga Tantra

Like its great predecessor the Kama Sutra, the Ananga Ranga celebrates the joys of a healthy sexuality. Both these extraordinary works stress that lovemaking is an art and a science worthy of study by all. Written in India during the sixteenth century, the Ananga Ranga details ways of understanding men and women, particularly their sexual desires, so that partners may please each other for years and years and thus have a happy tantric life. Sir Richard Francis Burton first introduced the Ananga Ranga to the western world in 1885. Together with Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot he translated both the Kama Sutra (1883) and the Ananga Ranga from the original Sanskrit and published them for private circulation through the Kama Shastra Society, an association they had founded in 1876. These were the first ancient Hindu treatises on the art of love to be translated into the English language, but they were so controversial that they could not be officially published in England until the mid 1960s.

CHAPTER III : OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF MEN SECTION I. THEN are three kinds of men, namely, the Shastra, or the Hare-man; the Vrishabha, or Bull-man, and the Ashwa, or Horse-man. 1 These may be described by explanation of their nature, and by enumeration of their accidents. The Shasha is known by a Linga which in erection does not exceed six finger-breaths, or about three inches. His figure is short and spare, but well-proportioned in shape and make; he has small hands, knees, feet, loins and thighs, the latter being darker than the rest of the skin. His features are clear and well proportioned; his face is round, his teeth are short and fine, his hair is silky, and his eyes are large and well-opened. He is of a quiet disposition; he does good for virtue's sake; he looks forward to making a name; he is humble in demeanour; his appetite for food is small, and he is moderate in carnal desires. Finally, there is nothing offensive in his Kama-salila or semen.

The Vrishabha is known by a Linga of nine fingers in length, or four inches and a half. His body is robust and tough, like that of a tortise; his chest is fleshy, his belly is hard, and the frogs of the upper arms are turned so as to be brought in front. His forehead is high, his eyes large and long, with pink corners, and the palm of his hands are red. His disposition is cruel and violent, restless and irascible, and his Kama-salila is every ready.

The Ashwa is known by a Linga of twelve fingers, or about six inches long. He is tall and large-framed, but not fleshy, and his delight is in big and robust women, never in those of delicate form. His body is hard as iron, his chest is broad, full, and muscular; his body below the hips is long, and the same is the case with his mouth and teeth, his neck and ears; whilst his hands and fingers are remarkably so. His knees are somewhat crooked, and this distortion may also be observed in the nails of his toes. His hair is long, coarse and thick. His look is fixed and hard, without changing form, and his voice is deep like that of a bull. He is reckless in spirit, passionate and covetous, gluttonous, volatile, lazy, and full of sleep. He walks slowly, placing one foot in front of the other. He cares little for the venereal rite, except when the spasm approaches 4 gay bi and straight men. His Kama-salila is copious, salt, and goat-like. You can read the full text of the Ananga Ranga by clicking here

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