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When a British official dodged Victorian prudery to publish the Kamasutra in EnglishIn 1883, when the Kamasutra first made its appearance in English, European readers of Vatsyayana’s treatise hadn’t the faintest idea that its publisher—the wordily nomenclatured Hindoo Kama Shastra Society—was, in fact, an entirely nonexistent body.
Updated July 21, 20225 min read