Forum F.y.i
July, 2002
In 1883 British explorer Richard Francis Burton and three others translated the Kama Sutra, the classic Hindu manual on erotic love. But two scholars say Burton's team made serious errors, including repeated mistranslations and the exclusion of a section about the G spot. (Predictably, they were most accurate in the chapter that describes various sexual positions.) This spring, Oxford University Press published what it says is a more complete and precise edition of the 13th century text, with ex...