What Kinds of Making Love Do We Find in Different Parts of the World?

Different places, different customs. Find out more about the styles of making love that are in practice around the world.

Japanese sex is somewhat more dissolute that Westerners would think. (Photoxpress)

Indian style of making love

Indian sexual practices are generally known from Kama Sutra, Koka Shastra and so on. Here we find a lot of complicated positions, where some have origins in yoga and are meant to prevent ejaculation (Karezza), upright positions and the woman-on-top positions that are especially used by very religious people because, in Tantric Hinduism, women are Energy and men are God’s Immanence. If you stick to the original interpretation, all sexual positions are intimately associated with Indian love for life at several levels. Therefore, this isn’t just sex, but is also a meditative technique where you try to be a man or a woman by achieving mystical goals.

Any special features?

In India, they cherish love slaps (with your fingertips on your partner’s breasts, back, butt and genitals), love bites as a sign of possession, and stimulation of the skin with particularly long nails that can either caress or passionately scratch (armpits and waist are ideal spots because there the marks aren’t visible under everyday clothes). Among all the Indian methods, it’s best if you learn the standing positions, provided you can lift your partner.

Indian sex includes rough elements transferred to it ‘through nails’. (Photoxpress)

Japanese style of making love

 

Numerous squatting and half-squatting positions are typical of Japanese style of making love, together with a lot of bondage and an interest in strange accessories. These sexual customs are depicted in paintings from the 18th and the early 19th century.

Indian sex is generally known from Kama Sutra. The question is how difficult it is to learn it. (Photoxpress)


Special features here are extremely sophisticated stimulation with women’s fingers – with the thumbs towards the anus and other fingers towards the vagina - and a wide variety of mechanical aids (kabuto-gata, do-gata, yoroi-gata, yaso-gata, engi – dildo, etc.). In short, if you accept the stereotype that the Japanese are only a hard-working nation, you’re dead wrong. They enjoy simulated rapes, which George Moore called “wild fornication” - he tried to emphasize the importance of large genitals, abundant secretion, etc. According to the Japanese tradition, sex is a rough game.

The kind of making love that Southern Slavs like to indulge in

Everything is well-documented in rich erotic folk songs from the former Yugoslavia: sex without clothes, with emphasis put on the importance of the genitals' smell as a stimulus. Serbian sex is like faking rape – you throw a woman on the floor, grab her ankles and lift them above your head, then thrust into her with your whole weight (choose a soft carpet – traditionally, bare floor isn’t an option).

Serbian sex is far from being gentle. (Photoxpress)


Croatian sex is a woman’s matter: she prepares a bath, and after slight stimulation, she and he have sex in the position where a woman rides astride her partner. Croatian experts say it’s all very exhausting.

A ”lion’s position” is the method of male masturbation – a man squats with his heels touching his scrotum, places his penis between his ankles, leans on his butt and palms and, at the same time, moves his legs.

Chinese style of making love

 

The classic Chinese books teach the kind of making love that surprisingly resembles relaxed European sex. Charming names are given to various positions: “A complying monkey clinging to a tree”, “Wild geese fly on the back” – and these are the names of completely ordinary positions (partners sit by looking at each other; woman on top and turned around). Mystical schools tried to avoid ejaculation. Sexual intercourse is particularly perfected in various complicated deep and shallow trusts, often following magical numbers. The Chinese have sex everywhere – on the floor, outdoors ... However, women are not treated as equals like in Indian erotology.

 

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