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Kamasutra 2.1.27

Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes) 2.1.27

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Sanskrit

2.1.27

tatraitat syād upāya-vailakṣaṇyavad eva hi kārya-vailakṣaṇyam api kasmān na syād iti. tac ca na. hetumad upāya-vailakṣaṇyam. tatra kartr-ādhārayor bhinna-lakṣaṇatvād a:hetumat-kārya-vailakṣaṇyam anyāyyaṃ syāt. ākṛter a:bhedād iti.

It may be said that if the ways of working in men and women are different, why should not there be a difference, even in the pleasure they feel, and which is the result of those ways.

Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

But this objection is groundless, for the person acting and the person acted upon being of different kinds, there is a reason for the difference in their ways of working; but there is no reason for any difference in the pleasure they feel, because they both naturally derive pleasure from the act they perform.

Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

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