The Kama Sutra

(5). When, holding the lingam in his hand, the eunuch kisses it as if he

were kissing the lower lip, it is called "kissing."

(6). When, after kissing it, he touches it with his tongue everywhere,

and passes the tongue over the end of it, it is called "rubbing."

(7). When, in the same way, he puts the half of it into his mouth, and

forcibly kisses and sucks it, this is called "sucking a mangoe fruit."

(8). And lastly, when, with the consent of the man, the eunuch puts the

whole lingam into his mouth, and presses it to the very end, as if he

were going to swallow it up, it is called "swallowing up."

Striking, scratching, and other things may also be done during this kind

of congress.

The Auparishtaka is practised only by unchaste and wanton women, female

attendants and serving maids, _i.e._, those who are not married to

anybody, but who live by shampooing.

The Acharyas (_i.e._, ancient and venerable authors) are of opinion that

this Auparishtaka is the work of a dog and not of a man, because it is a

low practice, and opposed to the orders of the Holy Writ, and because

the man himself suffers by bringing his lingam into contact with the

mouths of eunuchs and women. But Vatsyayana says that the orders of the

Holy Writ do not affect those who resort to courtezans, and the law

prohibits the practice of the Auparishtaka with married women only. As

regards the injury to the male, that can be easily remedied.

The people of Eastern India do not resort to women who practise the

Auparishtaka.

The people of Ahichhatra resort to such women, but do nothing with them,

so far as the mouth is concerned.

The people of Saketa do with these women every kind of mouth congress,

while the people of Nagara do not practise this, but do every other

thing.

The people of the Shurasena country, on the southern bank of the Jumna,

do everything without any hesitation, for they say that women being

naturally unclean, no one can be certain about their character, their

purity, their conduct, their practices, their confidences, or their

speech. They are not however on this account to be abandoned, because

religious law, on the authority of which they are reckoned pure, lays

down that the udder of a cow is clean at the time of milking, though the

mouth of a cow, and also the mouth of her calf, are considered unclean

by the Hindoos. Again a dog is clean when he seizes a deer in hunting,

though food touched by a dog is otherwise considered very unclean. A

bird is clean when it causes a fruit to fall from a tree by pecking at

it, though things eaten by crows and other birds are considered unclean.

And the mouth of a woman is clean for kissing and such like things at

the time of sexual intercourse. Vatsyayana moreover thinks that in all

these things connected with love, everybody should act according to the

custom of his country, and his own inclination.