Part
Five
Other Men’s
Wives
[Paradàrìka]
Chapter One
Behavior
[Úìla] Of Woman And Man
The ways in which a man has sexual relations with a girl or a widow have been explained in detail. The matter now is those who behave like prostitutes. Love with other men’s wives is a matter of pleasure and money. In explaining the means of reaching sexual relations, the question of prostitution is taken before that of adultery. Vàtsyàyana explains why sexual relations with women married to other men are forbidden.