The World of Courtesans c8.13

c8.13

There are sixteen appurtenances of the bedroom: gauging the feelings of the lover, expression of one’s love, offering the limbs in embrace, application of nail scratches and biting in dalliance, untying the *sārī* knot before sexual union, touching and patting the sex organs, the show of magnanimity, the art of thrilling with joy or desire, mutual understanding and satiation, encouragement, show of mild anger, sudden withdrawal of anger, appeasing the angry lover, leaving the sleeping lover, simulating a long sleep and the art of hiding the sexual organs of the body.