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A woman from ancient India being penetrated by a man who is in a Chakrasana like position.
Legs squirming out of pleasure in the background.
Text on cards:
The Legend of The Rati Rahasya
A medieval Indian sex manual that kept desire alive at a time when sex had become taboo.
AAHHH!
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Card 2
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Pandit Kokkoka looks at a naked woman, with heart eyes.
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One day in Medieval India, in King Bhoja's court,
sauntered A woman sau in, undressed.
"I brim with passionate love, and have found no worthy mate. I shall wander the world naked until I dol"
One of his courtiers. Pandit Kokkoka, said-
"Let me take on this uphill task, my lord!"
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A woman from ancient India being penetrated by Pandit Koka who is in a Chakrasana like position.
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Koka's techniques worked wonders.
Oh Koka! Your kock feels so good!
When he returned to Bhoja's court, everybody wanted to hear the secrets of pleasure from him.
Read all about it in my new book!
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Pt. Koka
Ingenious man among learned men (self-declared)
And that's how Koka came to write the Rati Rahasya - a book about sex and love; and how to pleasure women (Well, at least according to one legend).
But Wait! Couldn't the king have just read the Kama Sutra? What was the need for Rati Rahasya?
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A naked woman from Ancient India looking at a saree and pallu clad woman.
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Kama Sutra was written at a time when women moved more freely in public, and sex was not taboo.
But centuries later, in Medieval India, chastity became prized. Sex was acceptable only within marriage.
Therefore, a new book on sex was needed.
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Rati Rahasya book, on its cover the same ancient Indian women’s face.
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Koka did lots of research. Besides the Kama Sutra, he referred to and included bits from many others books in the Kamashastra, i.e. the range of India's erotic literature.
The Rati Rahasya wasn't just a compilation from different sources. Koka added his own insights.
He tweaked info from the Kamashastra, making them more in tune with his time.
It was condensed and lucidly written making it much more popular amongst Indians than the Kama Sutra!
(Pracheen Times No. 1 Bestseller
Koka's Rati Rahasya
The Master of Sex reveals his secrets)
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A man kneels with a desperate expression and holding a rose to a naked dancing woman
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Important question we all have: how to tell if they like you too?
"There are signs of love, even though indirect, when a woman takes pleasure in his handsome look, or jokes at the cost of his virtue and love. Also when a woman greets her lover's friends and appears pleased."
(But Koka didn't give advice about figuring out whether a man was into you)
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There are different sculptures, inspired by the Rati Rahasya.
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Koka's treatise struck such a chord that people began to use the term 'Koka Shastra' for the entire range of the kamashastra.
Rati Rahasya became a muse for many medieval art works. Sculptures and miniature paintings of the time portrayed the sex positions described in the Rati Rahasya.
The book was translating into many languages, including Persian and Braj Bhasha.
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There is a picture of Koka's face with hearts fluttering around it.
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Through art and poetry, the Rati Rahasya allowed desire to continue to exist.
"To write of the exceptional as if it were normal gave the medieval lover the stimulus they most required.
Rati Rahasya testified to romance as a continuing necessity even though an over-rigid society denied it."
-Alex Comfort, Sexologist
Koka, you rebel!
