Erotic Arts of India

First Online: August 15, 1997
Last updated : January 02, 2012

© K. L. Kamat

Table of Contents

List of Articles

• Beauty of Khajuraho Temples
• Bestiality in Indian Art
• Erotic Sculptures of Bhatkal Temple
• Female Genitalia Worship
• Frequently Asked Questions: Ancient Indian Erotica
• Interpretations of the Kamasutra -- The Orgasm
• Introduction to the Erotic Arts of India
• Janavashya of Kallarasa
• Kamasutra Positions: The Dog
• Kamasutra Positions: The Villager's Choice
• Kamasutra Positions
• Kamasutra Positions: The Tripod
• The Kamasutra and Its Interpretations
• Kamasutra: Use of Nails in Lovemaking
• Kamasutra: The Virtue of Sex
• Manasollasa on Sex
• A Note on dating the period of Kamasutra
• The Phallus: Fallacies and Fantasies
• Sixty-four Art Forms According to Vatsyayana
• The Peddling Tortoise Position

List of Pictures

• Amorous Couple, Wooden Sculpture
• Artist Lets his Imagination Go Wild
• A Beast Mounts a Woman
• Begging for Love
• Birth of a Child
• Carvings on wooden car (chariot) in Pattadakal
• The Comfort Union
• Couple at Foreplay
• Couple Engaged in a Game of Love
• Couple Entangled in a Love Knot
• Couple on their First Night
• Depiction of Bestiality
• Depilated Lovers
• Divine recreation: Krishna with two Gopikas (female cowherds)
• Divine Recreation
• The Double Decker
• Drinking Couple -- Sculpture from a Stupa in Sanchi
• Enjoying each other company
• Erotic Paintngs of India
• Erotica from a Chariot Carving
• Erotica of Ballegavi
• Friends Engaged in Sexual Activities
• Genitalia Worship
• Girl preparing to meet boyfriend
• A Group Sex Scene Depicted in Ancient Sculpture
• "I read and I forgot… I saw and I understood"
• Illustration Based on Kokashastra of Kalyanamalla
• In Explicit Detail…
• The Ishwara Lingam
• Islamic Kamasutra (?)
• "Let Praise be Given to God that He has created Woman"
• The Love Knot
• Love, like liquor, intoxicates!
• Lovers, sculpture from a Khajuraho temple
• Making Love on a Swing
• Making love on a comfortable bed, pillow and bed-spread
• A man and two women are in the game of love.
• Man and Woman in 'Beauty of Union'
• Man disturbs wife while she puts on make up
• Man Fondles Two Women on a Swing
• Man punishes wife's paramour
• Man uses his Phallus to beat the drum!
• Mankind's First Erotic Art?
• Manmatha Shooting Arrow of Love from 'Gajanaari'
• The Mark of a Man!
• Medieval Sculpture Depicting Group Sex
• Mithuna Lovers
• Monkey Kamasutra
• The Mutually Reciprocal Position
• Needs of the body differ from that of the mind!
• "Not Tonight Dear"
• Old Fashioned Sex
• One Woman Takes on Two Men
• The Phallus: Facts and Fallacies
• Playboy Krishna Makes Out in the Bush
• Playful Girl Friends
• "Practice Yoga and Excel at Sex"
• A Romantic Couple
• Sculpted Chandela Temples Depicting Erotica
• Sculpture of Lajja Gowri
• Self help is the best help?
• Sex in the Kitchen!
• Spanking in Medieval India (?)
• Threesome (?) Depiction
• Two playful ladies bathing together
• A Warrior Spends Time With Mistress
• Who Said Bigger is Better?!
• Woman Hanging on to her Lover
• Woman putting on makeup excites a man
• Woman Worshipping an Erect Linga
• Workplace Harassment ?!
• Worship of Linga

See Also:

• More Pictures in Online version of Erotic Arts of India CD-ROM
• Kamat PictureSearch Results for: Erotica
• Topics on Tantric Cults and Practices
• Kamasutra Retold -- New interpretations of ancient text Kamasutra based on post-medieval Indian sculptures, paintings, and literature. Includes graphical interpretations of many sexual positions.

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