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From Sex to the Supreme Bliss (essay)

First published in The London Magazine: A Review of Literature and the Arts, April/May 2003 pp.56-63

From Sex to the Supreme Bliss

The erotic sculptures of the magnificent 13th century sun temple of Konark in eastern India, and the 11th century temples of Khajuraho in central India, probably generate more sensation and debate today than they did a thousand years ago. For these sculptures and temples were unquestionably not anomalies in their own time. Between 100 B.C. and 1500 AD there were temples built all over India that as a matter of normality sculpted into their walls exquisite and detailed carvings of men and women in various positions of love-making.

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