When it comes to lust and literature, there is often a tendency to conjure particular images: shades of grey,
a little girl named Lolita, or a writhing Lady Chatterley perhaps, and little birds fluttering about every which way.
Far before the likes of Nabokov and Nin, however, and before The Joy of Sex was ever a thing, there was the Kama Sutra,
the ancient Sanskrit text attributed to Vãtsyãyana and often considered the sex book par excellence.
The Orientalist adventurer Sir Richard Burton introduced English readers to the Kama Sutra and The Perfumed Garden (Credit: Alamy)
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Take me there now.
