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Book Review: The Book of Love: Power of pillow talk
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THE BOOK OF LOVE by James McConnachie, Atlantic Books, GBP 17.99
IF I WERE to begin this review with the name of the author of the
"Book of Love" under consideration - it's Vatsyayana, by the way - it
would draw little except puzzled looks and exasperated confusion. If,
however, I were to begin it with the work's Sanskrit title, you would
know something (something, as James McConnachie cleverly reveals,
that is probably wrong) immediately. For the book in question is the
Kamasutra.
Nowadays, Kamasutra is practically synonymous with glossily
produced, coffee-table smut. It notoriously lists a ...
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