Bhaktapur. Temple of Pashupatinath. Seventeenth century. Position of the couple in maithuna described in the Kama Sutra. What distinguishes Tantric sexuality is not the positions but its relationship with the divine. The woman, with her right foot, supports the lotus flower, itself linked to the earth by its stem, and on which the divinity rests her left foot. The man is in contact with the divine world through the other foot of the divinity, which rests on his head. It is the symbolic union of heaven and mother earth that is suggested to us.

Bhaktapur. Temple of Pashupatinath. Seventeenth century. Position of the couple in maithuna described in the Kama Sutra. What distinguishes Tantric sexuality is not the positions but its relationship with the divine. The woman, with her right foot, supports the lotus flower, itself linked to the earth by its stem, and on which the divinity rests her left foot. The man is in contact with the divine world through the other foot of the divinity, which rests on his head. It is the symbolic union of heaven and mother earth that is suggested to us.