[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915) › v2.c19.99.1 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.99.1 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.99.1 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.99.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.99.1) and wearing costly ornaments and garb.¹ And those women who are ever held in high esteem, watched over, and loved, they, too, fasten on to hunchbacks, the blind, simpletons, dwarfs, and cripples, O divine Rishi, and on to other defective and little-prized men—for women, there is no man in this world they would not go to, O great Muni. And when they cannot come to a man at all, then they even fall on one another ²; for they are not true to their husband. Their nature flutters this way and that, it is hard to serve them; in their meaning hard to grasp as the (sparkling, witty) words of the clever man here on earth—thus women are. The fire has never too many logs, the great sea never too many rivers, death never too many beings of all kinds, and lovely-eyed woman has never too many men. This and other things (of this kind), O divine Rishi, is the secret of all women. So soon as a woman sees a handsome man, her vulva becomes moist. Even if their own husband grants all their wishes, even if he does what is dear to their heart, and shelters them, yet women cannot bear him. Not the richest enjoyment of their wishes, not ornaments, nor protection and home do they hold in so high esteem as favour and satisfaction in the pleasure of love. The god of death, the wind, death, the underworld, the ever-burning entrance to hell, the knife-edge, poison, snake, and fire—women are all these in one. - [Previous: v2.c19.98](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.98) - [Next: v2.c19.99.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.99.2) - [Up: v2.c19.99](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.99) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.99.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.99.1) · Pramāṇa