The book emphasizes a preventive art to be studied by all in contrast to a modern sexology a curative science, which directs efforts towards therapy of dysfunction, after it has occurred! Vatsyayana’s view on why, when and whom to of Sex education, Foreplay, play and Afterplay, Artificial penis, Oral sex, Orgasm and multi orgasms are at par with modern research of today. The details of which will be discussed.
This comparative essay of science versus verses suggests a dynamic equilibrium between the present and the past. It appears that we continue to prescribe what has been pre-scribed centuries ago and one wonders whether the modern research is really research or re-search!