The Kama Sutra is the ancient guide to sexual behaviors and sex positions which many people have studied over the centuries since it was first created in ancient India. What most people know are that it depicts many different contorted positions in which a person can have sexual intercourse. But it also has guides to all kinds of sexual behavior and one feature of it is that it features quite a lot of material on the subject of erotic biting. Evidently the ancient Indians knew what a thrill it could be, even to the point of including it in their porn!

One can experiment with biting in many ways and many places. One should generally start gently but one may find that their lover is encouraging them to bite even harder and give them more sensation. Biting can be added to kissing and a make out session, moving from the lips to nuzzle and nibble at the neck and shoulders — though be careful of hickies as we said above. Many women enjoy being bitten on the back of the neck or where the neck and shoulders meet, either as a stimulation on its own or an addition to sex.

With the early Indian cultures we were given the Kama Sutra or series of scripts on the entire ordeal behind courtship, relationships and sex, complete with an entire ten sections dedicated to the 64 different sexual acts used to entice, seduce and persuade a woman to a man’s bed and heart. The Kama Sutra governs practices of sexual ritual all the way from courting and making advances to dealing with the duties of the wife once marriage is established. The book’s thirty-six chapters also delve into sexual practices governing coitus, oral sex, biting, scratching and moaning by the woman in order to be mated to the male.

Sexuality permeates society in all that we have done. Not just the written word, but storytelling of bawdy limericks and tales not fit for proper society’s ears came from man’s exploits. Sculptures of the various positions and combinations have been found in ancient ruins ranging from India to the Greek and Italian islands in the Mediterranean. African cultures sculpted phallic objects as symbols of potency. The ruins of Pompeii were painted with erotic artwork giving humankind some of the earliest images of gay behavior often associated with the Greek and Roman cultures. As society grew, others painted, sculpted or wrote erotic artwork, much of which is famous today and on display in many prominent museums. Erotica was produced during the Renaissance period for the amusement of the aristocracy. By the twentieth century, erotic photography became the main and most interesting media for erotic art.

The large debate has rolled on as to whether the works of art are erotic or pornographic such to the point that the Supreme Court became involved in an attempt to explain the difference, but even that venerable institution couldn’t define it properly/ Justice Potter Stewart wrote one of the most famous lines in history concerning the great debate over obscenity; I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced; but I know it when I see it.