The strange and the familiar in the Kamasutra. Class in the Kamasutra ; The life of a man-about-town ; The Kamasutra as a play ; The Kamasutra and the contemporary reader ; The positions

The Kautilyan Kamasutra. The triple set of human aims ; The history of the three texts, and their intertextuality ; The indebtedness of the Kamasutra to the Arthashastra ; Basic similarities of form and argument ; Attitudes to low-life and kings ; Attitudes to other scholars ; Striking points of agreement ; Spying ; Testing ; The need to control the senses ; The Arthashastra and Kamasutra on sex ; Sex and politics

The mythology of the Kamasutra. Mythological background ; Tales told to encourage women ; Tales told to warn men

Women in the Kamasutra. The Kamasutra for women ; Women's rights ; Women's sexuality ; Sexual freedom ; Women's voices

The third nature : gender inversions in the Kamasutra. Traditional and inverted Indian concepts of gender ; Same-sex men ; Sir Richard Burton on the "third nature" ; Same-sex women ; Bisexuality

The mare's trap : the nature and culture of sex. Size matters ; The problem of desire ; Positional solutions ; Mechanical and pharmaceutical solutions ; The mare's trap ; Animals and humans : nature and culture ; The culture of the Kamasutra

The rise and fall of Kama and the Kamasutra. Kama in the early history of India ; Detumescence under the British ; Sir Richard Burton's version of the Kamasutra ; The demise of Kama ; The rebirth of Kama.