Structure of Attraction. by Emily Kelly

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THIS BOOK INTENDS TO DEMOLISH THE PRECONCEIVED IDEAS YOU MAY HAVE HAD ABOUT…

THE KAMASUTRA.

SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME THE KAMASUTRA WILL BE HIDDEN, SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME NO LONGER SHROUDED IN SHAME. SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME

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Structure of Attraction

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Contents

Sex and Architecture

PREFACE

It seems necessary to create a seven part series in honour of the original format of The Kamasutra, as this text based piece aims to show the connection architecture has with sex. I will be basing the foundation of my ideas on a breakdown of the original book The Kamasutra written by Vātsyāyana, although as I am an English speaker, I must take translators words and trust they have done it justice.

I will be using the translated and

published privately version The Kamasutra by Sir Richard Burton In 1883. Tthis piece of text alongside a more modern version, Wendy Doniger, an American Indologist, with a career spanning around five decades, she is a renowned scholar of Sanskrit, (the language of the original text by Vātsyāyana), and Indian textual traditions, Doniger has gained a reputation of being one of the “major scholars in humanities” in America.

From this I will show the connections I

myself have made from breaking down these translated versions, and in many ways sex runs parallel in many ways to architecture. This book aims to open your eyes to these ideas, that our everyday surroundings can connote sex, be designed with sex in mind, represent gender roles, destruction of structure can represent a feeling of sexual violation, and many other ideas, just read on.

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CONTENTS.

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Structure of Attraction, It’s Not Just Sex Positions.

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CH1 CH2 CH3 CH4 CH5 CH6 CH7

The Manual for a Sensual Life Hidden From View Redeeming It Arrangements of the Home Feng Shui Does it Spark Joy? Bibliography

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Structure of Attraction, Human Form Replicated in Architecture.

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Shape and Form Parallels in Architecture Sexual Positions Bibliography

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Structure of Attraction, It’s Called Object Sexual.

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Knowledge is Key .……………………………………………………………………....… Sexual Objectum Erika Eiffel The Berlin Wall Bibliography

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Structure of Attraction, The Gendered Home.

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Femininity Masculinity Gender Roles Sexual Harassment Bibliography

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Structure of Attraction, Spaces Designed, Sex in Mind.

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Sexual Utopia Sexual Commune Public Places Privacy is Key Bibliography

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Structure of Attraction, Hop into Hugh Hefner’s Rotating Bed.

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Preparations in the Bedroom The Playboy Mansion The Rotating Bed Adult Magazines Bibliography

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Structure of Attraction, Arts to be Studied Alongside Kamasutra.

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Knowledge is Power The Arts Historial Places of Sex Erotic Sculpture Bibliography

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ONE BOOK

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THIRTY SIX CHAPTERS

SEVEN PARTS SIXTY FOUR PARAGRAPHS

ONE THOUSAND, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY SLOK S OR VERSES

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THE MANUAL FOR A SENSUAL LIFE.

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The Format of the Original

Oscar Niemeyer

The ever changing ideas surrounding sexuality

Right angles don’t attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man. What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in the body of the woman we love.

and the human form have influenced the design of structures in architecture, and even further than this, how the internal parts of an interior influence the behaviour of human beings at home, it may be just the thing to act as the framework of breaking down these taboos Kamasutra has been regarded as one of the first of its kind, since its creation around 400BC-AD 2001, an explicit and highly literary sex manual textbook2, making it one of the oldest surviving texts of ancient Indian history according to renowned list, the 100 Books That Changed the World3.

This seven part series hopes to open your mind,

and allow you to reframe ideas you may have once had about the Kamasutra written by Vātsyāyana, we will also discuss the much anticipated sexual positions, and how they can have similar form to the built environment surrounding us. At first glance, the main visible connection between the legendary Kamasutra book and the vast industry of Architecture is what they can teach us about living.,

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HIDDEN FROM VIEW.

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HIDDEN FROM VIEW.

Hidden From View Contents

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At the top of bookshelves around peoples homes across the world, a certain shame is placed on being caught with the Kamasutra This statement by an adolescent girl in Vikram

Chandra’s story, “Kama,” rings true: “Sister Cannina didn’t want to tell us. It’s the Kama Sutra, which she says isn’t in the library. But Gisela’s parents have a copy which they think is hidden away on the top of their shelf. We looked it up there.” And the adult to whom she tells this says, “You put that book back where you found it. And don’t read any more.”

Outside of India, the part of the Kamasutra

describing the positions may have been the bestthumbed passage in previous ages of sexual censorship, but nowadays, when sexually explicit novels, films, and instruction manuals are available everywhere, that part is the least useful in terms of learning about life.

CENSORED

HATTAN

Even reading the Kama Sutra, in a fine

new translation, feels like a guilty pleasure. In the mid-60s, the Kama Sutra was, along with The Perfumed Garden and Venus in Furs, considered licentious and filthy, the very gateway to damnation. In the London suburbs in the early 60s, if a young man sought knowledge of sexual matters he had to traipse up to the West End to watch European films, and if particularly desperate during a tiresome evening might even be forced to turn to literature.

Many men and young teen boys owned copies of

contraband such as Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Lolita and other such serious stuff, along with Harold Robbins. The longer people avoid reading it, the more dreadful this famed carnival of desire and mayhem beccomes in your imagination. It turns out that Kama Sutra: A Guide to the Art of Pleasure is a compendium of advice about social and romantic behaviour, for wealthy young men about town, containing information about hygiene and sexual positions.

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REDEEMING IT. Yet it is all but ignored as a serious work in its country of origin, it is sometimes taken as a matter of national shame rather than pride and in the rest of the world it is a source of amused amazement, not taken seriously at is known about the original author, the all, which is such a shame, Nbookot much itself is most commonly known in English through the Sir Richard Francis Burton translation, it’s worthy of much more. published privately in 1883 as The Kama Sutra of Vātsyāyana. A more moder translation can be seen through Wendy Doniger’s work as a distinguished Indologist and scholar of Sanskrit and Indian textual traditions. Her research and teaching interests revolve around Hinduism and mythology addressing themes such as death, dreams, evil, literature, law, gender and zoology.

PHALLIC STRUCTURE

Wendy Doniger, has been the biggest influence in

EMPIRE STATE BUILDING

helping understand the insights we can take from Kamasutra, not only this she has prepared a new translation with her colleague Sudhir Kahar, for Oxford World Classics revealing for the first time the text’s surprisingly modern ideas about gender and unexpectedly subtle stereotypes of feminine and masculine natures. Besides this it also reveals relatively liberal attitudes to women’s education and sexual freedom, and far more complex views of homosexual acts than are suggested by other texts of this period. It also makes us question Burton’s translation, and the influence of time on the translation.

When most people talk about the Kamasutra they discuss it in a joking manner, Doniger making her more contemporary translation widely available to the public in 2002, wanted to flip the script on this. Wanting to keep her translation modern, and to hopefully resurrect the Kamasutra as a serious book for sophisticated living for high society people, although most people think it is just about sexual positions, with very noticeable parallels to the ascetics of yoga, and bodies stretching, taking form and holding position.

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REDEEMING IT.

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Aphorism, Treatise, Rule.

KAMA SUTRA Desire, Pleasure, Love.

In some measure, the New Burlesque is a way of ushering the old erotic theatre out of the straw and stick houses of pornography and into the little brick house of downtown art, which, huff and puff as he willthe Mayor India today Kamasutra is cannot blow down. Instrikingly similar to that of the New Burlesque scene in Manhattan, as Adam Gopnik describes it as:

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ARRANGEMENTS OF THE HOME. Consider This Personal The first thing to acknowledge is the necessity of

space in your own home, its about to get personal. Have you ever considered your bedroom as a space of desire, and if so why not? Ask yourself is there a way to better the space, to achieve a higher level of pleasure.

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ARRANGEMENTS OF THE HOME.

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FENG SHUI. Rear Left

Rear Middle

Frame & Reputation

Love & Marriage

Health & Family

Center

Creativity & Children

Knowledge & Self Cultivation

Career

Helpful People & Travel

Wealth & Prosperity

Middle Left

Front Left

Rear Right

Front Middle

Middle Right

Front Right

Front Entrance

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FENG SHUI.

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The Bagua Map Applying feng shui principles to high-traffic areas

like your bedroom, living space, or home office can have positive and reverberating effects throughout your life. Feng shui is all about balancing different elements such as wood, fire, earth, metal, and water, and ying with yang. The bagua map (which translates to “eight trigrams” in Chinese) is an important tool for creating this kind of harmony and balance throughout a space.

By placing the Bagua Map over the structure

(home, building, office, room,) based on the position of the front door. The front door is located along the bottom line of the Bagua ( Front Left, Front Middle, Front Right) and will be positioned in one of the lower guas; Knowledge & Self Cultivation, Career or Travel & Helpful People.

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DOES IT SPARK …

Marie Kondo Style Enchanted with organizing since her childhood,

Marie began her tidying consultant business as a 19-year-old university student in Tokyo. Today, Marie is a renowned tidying expert helping people around the world to transform their cluttered homes into spaces of serenity and inspiration.

After starting her tidying consultant business as a

university student in Tokyo, Marie began honing her tidying craft. From her years of research and experience working with hundreds of clients emerged a unique approach to tidying: The KonMari Method™️. Designed to help you never revert to clutter again, Marie’s teachings are centered by the Method’s one-of-a-kind selection criterion, if something brings you joy, keep it!

This kind of treatment and care given to the home can reciprocate a more sensual space of order, clean room, clears the mind, allowing for a more pleasurable experience in the bedroom. This way of life of organisation that Kondo describes, runs alongside the way of life instructed in the Kamasutra book.

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JOY? DOES IT SPARK JOY?

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BIBLIOGRAPHY. References for Part One Wendy Doniger.

Wendy Doniger.

Vātsyāyana.

Richard J. Williams

Reading the ‘Kamasutra’: The Strange & the Familiar. Daedalus, vol. 136, no. 2, The MIT Press, 2007, pp. 66–78.

Redeeming the ‘Kamasutra, Google Books, 2016, pp. 9-163.

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated from the Sanscrit. In seven parts, with preface, introduction, and concluding remarks.”Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1883.

Sex and Buildings: Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution. Realkton Books. 2013.

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Reading the ‘Kamasutra’: The Strange & the Familiar. Daedalus, vol. 136, no. 2, The MIT Press, 2007, pp. 66–78.

Redeeming the ‘Kamasutra, Google Books, 2016, pp. 9-163.

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated from the Sanscrit. In seven parts, with preface, introduction, and concluding remarks.”Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1883.

Sex and Buildings: Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution. Realkton Books. 2013.

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P2. Structure of Attraction, Human Form Replicated in Architecture.

HUMAN SHAPE AND FORM BEING REPRODUCED IN THAT OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, IN OTHER WAYS THAN JUST BEING OF A PHALLIC NATURE.

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SHAPE AND FORM.

Curvature Hidden at the top of bookshelves around peo-

ples homes across the world, a certain shame is placed on being caught with the book on display, the topic of sex being shameful has always made reading Kamasutra as a guilty, ironic little pleasure.

This statement by an adolescent girl in Vikram

Outside of India, the part of the Kamasutra

describing the positions may have been the best-thumbed passage in previous ages of sexual censorship, but nowadays, when sexually explicit novels, films, and instruction manuals are available everywhere, that part is the least useful in terms of learning.

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Os ped ex el im sedis maionet as ullorpor si dolo deliquatiam simusdam volupta turehenet libus, inventia con consed quas res dis et rem culpa nonsequam laborepe archil etur, illuptate omnienda vel et et, omnis et vollestis aceatecatati auteste molorum cusape conse lab ipsam aut lant quaerum estrum aliquaestin nobisciatem eum erro imi, utemo volora volorem quam, ium quam nonsequ iberore ribuscillaci im et volor aut qui te doleserias coribus erit ped essitem esseditis sitinverspic tem conem quid eaquo etur aut qui acimin et acepersperio iduci non rem aribea voloreiunt ommod quaeres.

Maiorecte veris alitionse nimpos nonsedignam ea dolupta erferum nullandae eum essus eium eaque coris maximodit et estorecatiis as mi, ilitem idelit offictiaecto endit vellacessum, volorep edictem volorec tenist dolor re occumquam natiata dit, vendellamus qui asit recerov idust, nonsed moluptur? incte nonsedi idit, sunt iusae volum reius volorita.

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Isaac Newton

Horis maximodit et estorecatiis as mi, ilitem idelit offictiaecto endit vellacessum, volorep edictem volorec tenist dolor re occumquam natiata dit, vendellamus qui asit recerov idust, nonsed moluptur?

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PARALLELS IN ARCHITECTURE.

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Not much is known about the original author, the

book itself is most commonly known in English through the Sir Richard Francis Burton translation, published privately in 1883 as The Kama Sutra of Vātsyāyana. A more moder translation can be seen through Wendy Doniger’s work as a distinguished Indologist and scholar of Sanskrit and Indian textual traditions. Her research and teaching interests revolve around Hinduism and mythology addressing themes such as death, dreams, evil, literature, law, gender and zoology.

Wendy Doniger, has been the biggest influence in helping understand the insights we can take from Kamasutra, not only this she has prepared a new translation with her colleague Sudhir Kahar, for Oxford World Classics revealing for the first time the text’s surprisingly modern ideas about gender and unexpectedly subtle stereotypes of feminine and masculine natures. Besides this it also reveals relatively liberal attitudes to women’s education and sexual freedom, and far more complex views of homosexual acts than are suggested by other texts of this period. It also makes us question Burton’s translation, and the influence of time on the translation.

In her book Redeeming the Kamasutra, Doniger

discusses the many ways Kamasutra has been taken a little too lightly, with reviews of the book being titled “Assume the Position” or “Position Impossible”, and even a pocket sized version for quick access to positions. Doniger strived to demonstrate the possibilities of allowing minds to open to accept the book much more than just for its sexual positions, this book hopes to give readers an opportunity to potentially see the world differently, taking what we know of Kamasutra and in turn seeing these ideas and possibilities of living a more sensual life, surround us in our everyday built environments.

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SEXUAL POSITIONS

Sexual Guilt The “walk of shame” is a Sunday morning ritual

on college campuses (and sometimes beyond) across the United States: young women, hair matted and still in last night’s skirt and heels, trudge home post-hook-up. It’s a uniquely female ritual, and the term itself evokes a singularly female image.

While men also have to go home after sex, often

disheveled and exhausted, there’s no shame attached to their commute. In a culture that imbues sexual activity in women with shame and judgment while applauding sexual prolificacy in men, it will surprise no one that women are more likely than men to report regretting sexual encounters. But according to a new study, it’s not cultural views of female sexuality that saddle women with regret; it is evolution.

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Complicated Beings In reality, our emotional and psychological

responses to interactions with other human beings are shaped by culture and socialization at least as much as biology. But as sexual mores continue to shift – perhaps more rapidly than many folks are comfortable with – it’s comforting to believe that some evolutionary fact underlies our unease.

Human sexual expression has long been widely

variable, and social institutions have struggled to reign it in through a variety of mechanisms (outlawing same-sex relationships or premarital sex; valorizing female chastity and reproduction within marriage) for a variety of reasons (economic stability based on a nuclear family model; continuance of male social, political and economic dominance).

We are complicated animals, and even as we

study our own motivations and feelings, we are operating within a set of cultural assumptions and values that – being thickly swaddled in them – we cannot fully see. Which helps psychologists who fancy themselves evolution experts to conclude that their own personal preferences, or the current norms of their culture, are universal and explicable by evolution alone.

As cultural norms change, so do sexual behaviors and our responses to them. A recent UK survey found that more women than ever before have had same-sex sexual experiences – four times as many women as two decades ago. And while the vast majority of respondents had sex before marriage, majorities nonetheless said sex before marriage was wrong. That disconnect between a cultural ideal – that sex is best within the confines of marriage – and the biological and social reality – that human beings physically desire sex and that we have had sex outside of the confines of marriage for all of human history – is perhaps a better explanation of any attendant negative emotions attached to premarital sex than an evolutionary guessing game.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY. References for Part Two Wendy Doniger.

Wendy Doniger.

Vātsyāyana.

Richard J. Williams

Reading the ‘Kamasutra’: The Strange & the Familiar. Daedalus, vol. 136, no. 2, The MIT Press, 2007, pp. 66–78.

Redeeming the ‘Kamasutra, Google Books, 2016, pp. 9-163.

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated from the Sanscrit. In seven parts, with preface, introduction, and concluding remarks.”Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1883.

Sex and Buildings: Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution. Realkton Books. 2013.

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Reading the ‘Kamasutra’: The Strange & the Familiar. Daedalus, vol. 136, no. 2, The MIT Press, 2007, pp. 66–78.

Redeeming the ‘Kamasutra, Google Books, 2016, pp. 9-163.

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated from the Sanscrit. In seven parts, with preface, introduction, and concluding remarks.”Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1883.

Sex and Buildings: Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution. Realkton Books. 2013.

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Structure of Attraction, Human Form Replicated in Architecture.

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Shape and Form Parallels in Architecture Sexual Positions Bibliography

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P3. Structure of Attraction, It’s Called Object Sexual.

OBJECTOPHILLIA, WHEN ONES LOVE FOR INANIMATE OBJECTS BUILDS TO A SEXUAL OR ROMANTIC LEVEL, CAUSING THEM TO COMMIT FULLY.

BIBLIOGRAPHY. References for Part Three Wendy Doniger.

Wendy Doniger.

Vātsyāyana.

Richard J. Williams

Reading the ‘Kamasutra’: The Strange & the Familiar. Daedalus, vol. 136, no. 2, The MIT Press, 2007, pp. 66–78.

Redeeming the ‘Kamasutra, Google Books, 2016, pp. 9-163.

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated from the Sanscrit. In seven parts, with preface, introduction, and concluding remarks.”Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1883.

Sex and Buildings: Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution. Realkton Books. 2013.

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Reading the ‘Kamasutra’: The Strange & the Familiar. Daedalus, vol. 136, no. 2, The MIT Press, 2007, pp. 66–78.

Redeeming the ‘Kamasutra, Google Books, 2016, pp. 9-163.

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated from the Sanscrit. In seven parts, with preface, introduction, and concluding remarks.”Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1883.

Sex and Buildings: Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution. Realkton Books. 2013.

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Structure of Attraction, It’s Called Object Sexual.

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Knowledge is Key .……………………………………………………………………....… Sexual Objectum Erika Eiffel The Berlin Wall Bibliography

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P4. Structure of Attraction, The Gendered Home.

THE POLITICS OF SPACE ARE ALWAYS SEXUAL, EVEN IF SPACE IS CENTRAL TO THE MECHANISMS OF THE ERASURE OF SEXUALITY.

BIBLIOGRAPHY. References for Part Four Wendy Doniger.

Wendy Doniger.

Vātsyāyana.

Richard J. Williams

Reading the ‘Kamasutra’: The Strange & the Familiar. Daedalus, vol. 136, no. 2, The MIT Press, 2007, pp. 66–78.

Redeeming the ‘Kamasutra, Google Books, 2016, pp. 9-163.

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated from the Sanscrit. In seven parts, with preface, introduction, and concluding remarks.”Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1883.

Sex and Buildings: Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution. Realkton Books. 2013.

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Reading the ‘Kamasutra’: The Strange & the Familiar. Daedalus, vol. 136, no. 2, The MIT Press, 2007, pp. 66–78.

Redeeming the ‘Kamasutra, Google Books, 2016, pp. 9-163.

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated from the Sanscrit. In seven parts, with preface, introduction, and concluding remarks.”Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1883.

Sex and Buildings: Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution. Realkton Books. 2013.

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Structure of Attraction, The Gendered Home.

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Femininity Masculinity Gender Roles Sexual Harassment Bibliography

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P5. Structure of Attraction, Spaces Designed, Sex in Mind.

SOCIETY HAS PLANNED, BUILT AND IMAGINED SPACES FOR SEXUAL DESIRE TOTAKE PLACE FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME, TO PRESENT.

BIBLIOGRAPHY. References for Part Five Wendy Doniger.

Wendy Doniger.

Vātsyāyana.

Richard J. Williams

Reading the ‘Kamasutra’: The Strange & the Familiar. Daedalus, vol. 136, no. 2, The MIT Press, 2007, pp. 66–78.

Redeeming the ‘Kamasutra, Google Books, 2016, pp. 9-163.

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated from the Sanscrit. In seven parts, with preface, introduction, and concluding remarks.”Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1883.

Sex and Buildings: Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution. Realkton Books. 2013.

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Reading the ‘Kamasutra’: The Strange & the Familiar. Daedalus, vol. 136, no. 2, The MIT Press, 2007, pp. 66–78.

Redeeming the ‘Kamasutra, Google Books, 2016, pp. 9-163.

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated from the Sanscrit. In seven parts, with preface, introduction, and concluding remarks.”Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1883.

Sex and Buildings: Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution. Realkton Books. 2013.

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Structure of Attraction, Spaces Designed, Sex in Mind.

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Sexual Utopia Sexual Commune Public Places Privacy is Key Bibliography

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P6. Structure of Attraction, Hop into Hugh Hefner’s Bed.

THE PLAYBOY MANSION, HOW HUGH HEFNER REACHED SEXUAL LIBERTY AND DOMESTICITY SURROUNDED BY BLONDE BUNNIES.

BIBLIOGRAPHY. References for Part Six Wendy Doniger.

Wendy Doniger.

Vātsyāyana.

Richard J. Williams

Reading the ‘Kamasutra’: The Strange & the Familiar. Daedalus, vol. 136, no. 2, The MIT Press, 2007, pp. 66–78.

Redeeming the ‘Kamasutra, Google Books, 2016, pp. 9-163.

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated from the Sanscrit. In seven parts, with preface, introduction, and concluding remarks.”Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1883.

Sex and Buildings: Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution. Realkton Books. 2013.

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Reading the ‘Kamasutra’: The Strange & the Familiar. Daedalus, vol. 136, no. 2, The MIT Press, 2007, pp. 66–78.

Redeeming the ‘Kamasutra, Google Books, 2016, pp. 9-163.

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated from the Sanscrit. In seven parts, with preface, introduction, and concluding remarks.”Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1883.

Sex and Buildings: Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution. Realkton Books. 2013.

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Structure of Attraction, Hop into Hugh Hefner’s Rotating Bed.

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Preparations in the Bedroom The Playboy Mansion The Rotating Bed Adult Magazines Bibliography

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P7. Structure of Attraction, Arts to be Studied Alongside Kamasutra.

SIXTY FOUR ARTS TO BE STUDIED ALONGSIDE THE KAMASUTRA, AND PERSONAL ADORNMENT WILL HELP IN REACHING LIBERATION IN LIFE.

BIBLIOGRAPHY. References for Part Seven Wendy Doniger.

Wendy Doniger.

Vātsyāyana.

Richard J. Williams

Reading the ‘Kamasutra’: The Strange & the Familiar. Daedalus, vol. 136, no. 2, The MIT Press, 2007, pp. 66–78.

Redeeming the ‘Kamasutra, Google Books, 2016, pp. 9-163.

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated from the Sanscrit. In seven parts, with preface, introduction, and concluding remarks.”Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1883.

Sex and Buildings: Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution. Realkton Books. 2013.

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Reading the ‘Kamasutra’: The Strange & the Familiar. Daedalus, vol. 136, no. 2, The MIT Press, 2007, pp. 66–78.

Redeeming the ‘Kamasutra, Google Books, 2016, pp. 9-163.

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated from the Sanscrit. In seven parts, with preface, introduction, and concluding remarks.”Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1883.

Sex and Buildings: Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution. Realkton Books. 2013.

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Structure of Attraction, Arts to be Studied Alongside Kamasutra.

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Knowledge is Power The Arts Historial Places of Sex Erotic Sculpture Bibliography

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