Contrary to the images that may enter your mind when you hear the word Kama Sutra, never in the history of mankind is there a text, as explicit as it is that will instruct a young man how to be a lover and husband -- you can call it as the world's ancient sex education manual.
It was in the Vedic period when the different schools of science developed like medicine and astronomy and the science of love- Kama, is one of them. To quote the book, the science is mainly concerned with fulfilling the desires of the flesh. It aims to teach a person the best method to control and properly guide the desires particularly the sexual urge, so that the person may become a useful member of the family, society, and his country and to contribute to their welfare by his way of life.*
Sometimes, love can be like a war between man and woman, but the writing reconciles the difference between the two and emphasizes that these two beings are complemetary in the greater scheme of the procreation of mankind.
*S.C. Upadhyaya MA LLB DL PHD, The Kama Sutra-The Hindu Art of Love
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