should be amused in order to secure her cooperation but can be raped if there is no other way of dealing with her. Some even give grotesque prescriptions for compelling a woman to make sexually affective movements, or even to experience orgasm, against her will." Or there is the famous Chinese erotic novel Chin P'ing Mei - the wives and mistresses are expected to gratify the womanising hero with no thought to their own pleasures and they are shown being manhandled, seduced, burned with incense, subjected to erotic experiments, savagely beaten if they displease him etc. Although many of the scenes show traditional seduction positions and mutual enjoyment there is no tenderness about it. The kama sutra says that one must sex with ones equals, not with those below you in caste and status (servants, slaves etc) - because when you are with someone that you consider inferior to yourself your attitude towards them automatically changes and you don't treat them with the same re...