The Mare's Trap by Wendy Doniger

The Mare's Trap: Nature and Culture in The Kamasutra by Wendy Doniger
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Here’s Doniger equating Vatsyayana’s Kamasutra with Kautilya’s Arthshastra and, at times, with Manu’s Dharamshastra, validating her arguments on the basis of the perceived similarities between the two – like structure and form of the prose and verse, and the essential message of human interaction. The message being that war and love-making are different expressions of human libido/bravado. She presents convoluted arguments – coming up a zany thesis to write a book.
Incidentally, this is what the title means

There is also a variation with the woman on top: ‘When she grasps him in the “mare’s trap” position and draws him more deeply into her or contracts around him and hold him there for a long time, that is the “tongs” – she uses the lips of the vagina as a tongs.’

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