Ever since man and woman discovered that sex was much more than procreation and they could have a jolly good time, there have been various gnomes who have been busy documenting various aspects of a particularly sex life.
This was given a further boost when it discovered that sex could be had in a variety of positions instead of the conventional ones and that the earth did not stop spinning if one had sexual intercourse in the reverse plough position.
This brings us to Kama Sutra one of the oldest sex manuals in the world.
The Kama Sutra is attributed to the scholar, Mallanaga Vatsayana (300 BC to 400 AD) and the book is a compendium of leading a cultured and aesthetic way of life.
It is only the second chapter that deals with sexual intercourse and positions.
The repressive ideas about sex in the west were released from their shackles through the freely available translations of the Kama Sutra, the Ananga Ranga (11th Century AD), The Perfumed Garden of Sheikh Omar Ibn Muhammad al Nafzawi, The Cabinet Secret, the Mines of the Courtesans and other books like the Tales of the Genji.
But if you were under the impressions that books taught you to drive a woman to the Zenith of sexual ecstasy, thenyou would be sadly mistaken.
They liberated the man and the woman into accepting that sex was a joyful part of life.
One in five men haven't a clue about sex and from what I have come to know from my casebook is that they , the man and the woman sort of grope around , fumble around and then sort of tumble into each other and soon enough the stork brings the baby home.
Or the man goes like an unguided missile when he visits the local courtesan.
It is not as simple as that.
Generations of males all over the world are told that they have to be able to perform and this pressure becomes more when the man enters matrimony.
Most males manage to pass the test but there are a fairly large number who flunk the test.
This is where the books come in handy for they help the man and the woman develop a confidence in each other and in them.
The softer side of sex and sexual intercourse can actually be developed through the Love Songs of Ovid, the Poems of Sappho and the Song of Songs for instance.
There are several very old Sanskrit poems on love like this one from Bilhana: Even now;/ The pleased intimacy of rough love;/Upon the patient glory of her form;/Racks me with memory; and her bright dress;/As it were yellow flame, which the white hand;/Shamefastly gathers in her rising haste;/The slender grace of her departing feet.
These are sex books like hard core porn which brutalize sex but erotic poetry that inflame the senses in the most extraordinary way and thus pave the way for a better and more fulfilling sex life.