Kama Sutra mentions the tradition of pressing or scratching the body with fingernails as a sign of intense passion. One of the main areas for doing this was the breast. A curved line made on the breast was called ‘the tiger’s nail’; indentation made with five nails was known as ‘the peacock’s foot’; and when they were made close to one another near the nipple, it was known as ‘the jump of a hare’.
Breasts are composed mainly of fatty tissue. They have no muscles but it is possible to strengthen the ligaments that hold them and build up the pectoral muscles, which will aid posture. Try this easy exercise: with arms crossed, place your hands on your upper arms and push against them in a rhythmic pulsing action. Alternatively, you can open up your chest by raising your outstretched arms over your head.
‘When a woman in a lonely place bends down, as if to pick up something and pierces, as it were, a man sitting or standing with her breasts, and the man in return takes hold of them, it is called a “piercing embrace”.’
Kama Sutra
The Head
‘“Kamavatansakeshagrahana” or “holding the crest hair of love” is when, during the act of copulation, the husband holds with both hands his wife’s hair above her ears, whilst she does the same thing to him, and both exchange frequent kisses upon the mouth.’
Ananga Ranga
Being closest to heaven, the head is deemed a sacred part of our bodies with the hair symbolizing strength and energy. Lockets of hair have long been exchanged between lovers as mementoes. And in some religions a woman’s hair is kept covered, only to be revealed in private and to her husband. Hindus believed that simply by loosening her serpentine locks, the goddess Kali could unleash thunderstorms and tempests, which could only be quelled if she bound up her hair again. Similarly, Shiva’s unkempt tresses were representative of wild abandon and universal sexual energy.
According to the Ananga Ranga, one of the signs that a woman is amorous, is that ‘she scratches her head that notice may be drawn to it and rubs and repeatedly smooths her hair so that it may look well.’ At that time most women possessed long flowing hair, which ideally was to be kept ‘soft, close, thick, black and wavy’.
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