Now the Catholic “Kama Sutra”! Don’t get surprised, it is the new think tank in the catholic community.
Many of us who knows the meaning of Kama Sutra would really know what it is all about. It is a Hindu religious book, which teaches the art and rules of making love. Nearly 16 century later an attempt is made by a celibate catholic monk who has set up a website advising Catholic couples how to have better sex.
Father Ksawery Knotz’s lover’s guide on www.szansaspotkania.net gives graphic lovemaking tips and has been called as the ‘Catholic Kama Sutra’.
It compares having an orgasm to going to heaven and recommends that men ‘take care that women experience pleasure’ during sex, adding that this requires ‘extra efforts on the part of the husband’.
Love and sex have been the part of ancient mythic debated issue in ancient India, yet “Kama Sutra” of Vatsyayana remains the marvelous piece of teaching of love making. In the Kama Sutra, the fourth-century book, editor Vatsyayana compiled, commented on and embellished over 800 years’ of disconnected Hindu wisdom writings regarding sexual love and romantic relationships.
His work to a critique is considered notorious for its presumed, almost pornographic over-emphasis on sex. However, the book is actually the tool of procreation as per the Hindu religious understanding and it could be looked as one of the spiritual book. Although many of the sects in the society who considers celibacy to attain the super annunciation in life would not agree with the fact of teaching sex as an act of spirituality. In fact Kama Sutra is an attempt to optimize enjoyment of sexual loving, to teach how to enhance its effect on the quality of life and to relate that inscrutable mystery to established religious traditions.
Gordon J. Hilsman, who is a clinical pastoral educator in Tacoma, Washington, and author of Intimate Spirituality: The Catholic Way of Love and Sex, Web site www.intimatespirituality.com, in one of his communicated report comments that, “what was the Creator’s purpose in establishing an intensely pleasurable two-person configuration for reproduction? Sexuality itself is likely to remain a profound mystery to humankind for a long time, and sexual loving is even more complex. But for our age a widely diverse community of dedicated and educated Catholics committed to formulation of something like a Catholic Kama Sutra may determine that some of the ways in which intimate relationships feed the human spirit reflect the presence of God as clearly as any other religious experience when they are no longer a priori considered to be “bad in all circumstances.”
He further laments, “A Catholic Kama Sutra is likely to show the need to redefine the virtue of chastity to something like a lifelong project of bringing sex and love together in service of nurturing the richness of life.”
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