It’s been available in Sanskrit for 1,700 years and its 129 years since Sir Richard Burton blackened his name by translating it into English. Although many generations of grateful schoolboys went on to read it in the dark, it was not until the 1960s that the Kamasutra became the sort of book you could leave on your coffee table. But even then, it was more of a fashion statement than a sacred text. The pictures of the odd, almost impossible dating sites sexual positions were of greater interest than Vatsyayana’s high-minded instructions.

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But we’re all grown-ups now, aren’t we? That’s what Oxford World’s Classics is hoping, anyway. Next week it is bringing out the “first ever accurate English” version of the “most famous book on sex dating ever published”. They have worked hard to be faithful to the “original tone” of the book and to use “clear, vivid, sexually frank English”. Theirs is a serious scholarly enterprise.

Sadly, Burton version was not. His Victorian and orient list pruderies got the better of him. He prettified the prose and eroticized the acts he described by referring to the dating personal male and female organs as the lingam and the yoni. These are Sanskrit words but the latter does not appear in the original, and Vatsyayana uses the former infrequently, preferring the unisex term afghan, which can be translated as pelvis, genitals or “between the legs”. Burton translation of the word for homosexuals was “eunuch” and wherever there were woman’s voices, he muffled them.

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Or, as Tony might say, balancing rights and responsibilities. Learning how to have fun with people you really like, in the context of a stable relationship. Developing your online dating confidence. Honing your emotional literacy skills. In extremity, having the courage to say: But if my Monday-morning visits to my local Waters ton is anything to go by, the battle for sexual enlightenment is not yet won. You should have seen the looks when I asked for “the new Kamasutra” in a normal voice. The pale, almost gasping assistant waved me in the direction of the shelf marked “Health”.

So that’s the point we’ve reached. Forty years of raging sexual revolution and we still can’t figure it out. We can talk and talk about the mind-body problem and the importance of seeing the two as one, but we continue to stock them on separate shelves. We say we wish we could see sex as part of life, but when we act on this wish in a bookstore, we also wish for a brown paper bag. The prospect of sex-as-noble-enterprise is still so terrifying that we can’t even talk about it unless we label it “Other” and view it from the safe side of the east-west divide.

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