biting

Chapter Five

biting

[dashana cheda]

A description of biting follows that on scratching with the nails. As far as the ways of biting are concerned, as for embraces, local custom should be consulted. One should not be led by a state of excitation into performing acts that are considered unfitting. The subject comprises two aspects: the areas of the body to which pain may be caused, and the areas to be avoided.

1 As for kisses, all parts of the body are suitable for biting, except for the upper lip, the tongue, and the eyes.

There remain the forehead, the lower lip, the neck, the cheeks, the west, the breasts; then, the sides, the crotch, the armpits, and the sex, parts that are not acceptable to everybody. It is unnecessary, therefore, to list all the places to be bitten that are the same as those to be embraced, and in which the teeth leave their mark, since they have already been described in dealing with kisses.

2 Teeth quality includes evenness, with an attractive shine, colored with betel, of the right size, close set, and sharp.

3 Defects include irregularity, badly aligned, decayed, too small or too large, uneven, or overlapping.

4 There are ten kinds of bite, known as: discreet [gudhaka], impressed [ucchunaka], pointed [bindu], necklace of dots [bindu-màlà], coral jewel [pravalamani], necklace of gems [maóimàlà], scattered clouds [khandàbhraka], the chewing of the wild boar [varàha-charvita].

5 For the discreet bite, the teeth gently press the lower lip, so as to leave red marks that do not last.

6 The impressed bite is similar, but the lip is bitten hard.

7 The discreet, impressed, and pointed bites are made on the lower lip.

These are light bites on the lower lip.

8 The impressed, pointed, and coral jewel bites are made on the cheeks.

9 Kiss marks on the ear, as well as scratch and bite marks on the cheeks are considered ornamental.

10 The coral jewel is when the same spot is squeezed several times between the top teeth and the lower lip.

11 Coral jewel marks in a line are called necklaces of gems.

12 The pointed bite is the mark left when a small piece of skin is seized between the teeth and pulled.

13 Numerous pointed marks made in the same area are known as the necklace of dots.

14 The two necklaces are made on the neck, the sides, or close to the sex.

Because the skin is more tender there.

15 The necklace of dots can also be made on the forehead and the thighs.

16 A circle of irregular small tooth marks beneath the breasts is called the scattered cloud.

17 A wide area of bites close to one another beneath the breasts forming a red center is known as the nibbling of the wild boar. 

18 The two latter bites are made in a state of great excitation [chanda vega],

This closes the description of the bites, followed by the habit of placing one’s mark on things.

19 It is a frequent custom to mark with one’s teeth and nails the leaves she uses to put rouge on her face, the flowers she wears at her ears, the betel leaves that she will chew, and the palm leaves on which love letters are written.

As regards peculiar local customs:

20 One may treat women according to local conventions, or according to one’s own customs.

There are five kinds of behavior to be adopted or rejected according to one’s own tastes and local custom. In one’s own country, even if one has particular tastes, no problem arises. With regard to kisses, and so on, one can always follow the customs of one’s own country. Women have no objection to this since they do the same.

21 In Madhyadeúa, the population is mainly Aryan, and the women are very careful of their purity. They do not care for kisses or injuries from nails or teeth.

According to Bhågu, Madhyadeúa stretches from the Himàlayas to the Vindhya mountains, while for Vasiûþha it is the Ganges plain.

The women of this area are very puritanical.

22 The same occurs among the women of Bàhlika [Balkh] and Avanti.

Balkh is north of Gandhara [Afghanistan], while Avanti is the country of Ujjaina.

23 They are, however, attracted by unusual loveplay [chitrarata],

24 The women of Màlavà and Abhìra are much given to embraces, kisses, nail scratching, biting, and blows, but not to injuries. They are very fond of sucking the penis.

25 Those who live in the region of the Indus and the Sutlej rivers are very fond of fellatio [aupariûþaka].

26 The women of Aurantaka, Sahyadri, and Làta [Surat, Baroda] are very erotic and sigh gently.

27 To satisfy the women of Koshala and those belonging to the regions where matriarchy is practiced [strìràjya], violent practices [kharavega] and brutal sexual behavior are needed. Dildos [apadravya] are much employed.

28 The women of Andhra are gentle by nature and sensual. They are shameless, and their tastes are not very decent.

But they are delicate and are not fond of blows. They like to dominate men, and know no limit.

They are very independent.

29 The women of Mahàraûþra are skilled in the sixty-four arts, but their language is obscene, coarse, and hard. They are very impetuous in bed.

30 The women of the great city [Pàtaliputra] act in the same way, but practice the arts in private.

31 Due to friction during possession, Dravidian women have slight losses of blood.

Due to friction, the instruments going back and forth when it penetrates during possession, even when great precautions are taken.

32 The women from the north of Vàna country [Konkarna] have a moderate temperament. They bear everything — embraces, kisses, blows, scratches, and bites — but they hide their sex, and the sight of their partner’s sex makes them laugh. They loathe men who behave vulgarly, or in an obscene or brutal manner.

33 The women of Gauda [South Bengal] speak softly, are affectionate, and have delicate limbs.

34 According to Suvaróanàbha, it is more important to follow one’s nature than local custom as far as kisses, embraces, scratches, and bites are concerned.

35 However, local custom must be attended to as regard the times for making love. Furthermore, the garments, behavior, and amusements of the place must be adopted.

This is why it should not be thought that the habits and behavior described in this book are valid everywhere.

In some cases, behavior that would be considered normal in one country is condemned in another. For this reason, it is better not to worry about it and to follow one’s inclinations.

36 Stimulating entwinings are performed to start with, unusual practices follow.

Embraces, kisses, scratches and bites, blows and sighs: these six external actions are practiced one after the other fir the purposes of arousal. Of these, sighs are born of pleasure caused by pain, while blows are classed as manual contact. Bites are heavy contact. Scratches also count as aggression, while kisses are gentle contacts. Next in order come special practices, including blows. All these practices, if lightly performed, arouse desire and provoke sighs when they take place in those parts of the body that are not very accessible.

It is thus that, reflecting on local convention and one’s own tastes, one should practice those cutting attacks that are useful for lasting affection. They are of two kinds: those that leave permanent marks and those that are merely transitory.

37 The more a man increases the violence of his blows, the more the girl receiving them should repay in kind. If they become very violent, the victim should double her own.

38 She should respond to aggression, a bindu for a bindu, a necklace of bindus with a necklace of bindus, and repay also the wild boar’s bite, attacking the boy, as if she were in anger.

39 Lifting his head by the hair, she glues her lips to his, and forcing him to lie down, she bites his whole body like a mad-woman.

She seizes him by the hair with one band, and with the other takes him by the chin to lift him. She bites him wherever he had bitten her and rejoices at his efforts to free himself.

She embraces him with such force that their bodies become a single body, then she covers him with bites.

40 Sitting on her lover’s chest, she raises his face with one hand and with the other encircling his neck, she marks him with the necklace of gems [maóimàlà] around his neck and neighboring areas.

41 During the day, when the boy shows various persons the marks his mistress made, the latter, without a glance, should start laughing.

42 Then, turning her head away, or accusing her lover, she should show everyone the wounds he has left on her body.

43 Whether they continue having sexual relations, or live chastely together, true love never decreases, even after one hundred years.

End of the Fifth Chapter

Biting

of the Second Part entitled Amorous Advances