[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Polity, Pleasure & Law](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti) › [Erotics and the Art of Love](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama) › [Kamasutra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana) › 1.2.20 # Kamasutra 1.2.20 Kāmasūtra 1.2.20 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.2.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.2.20) triyag yoniṣu punar anāvṛtatvāt strījāteś ca, ṛtau yāvad arthaṃ pravṛtter abuddhipūrvakatvāc ca pravṛttīnām anupāyaḥ pratyayaḥ// > This is not so. Sexual intercourse being a thing dependent on man and woman requires the application of proper means by them, and those means are to be learnt from the Kama Shastra. The non-application of proper means, which we see in the brute creation, is caused by their being unrestrained, and by the females among them only being fit for sexual intercourse at certain seasons and no more, and by their intercourse not being preceded by thought of any kind. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 1.2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.2.19) - [Next: 1.2.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.2.21) - [Up: 1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.2) ## Translations (1) - [The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana~en-burton.1.2.p13) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.5.24) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.1.2.20) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.2.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.2.20) · Pramāṇa