10. The Kama Sutra Has Instructions for Slapping
The Kama Sutra is a famous ancient Hindu text that details desire and healthy marriage practices. The name comes from Kama, which is a broad term for desire, and Sutra which is a term for collections of lessons or rules. While the book contains numerous non-intimate guides to a happy and fulfilling life, it is primarily known in the west as an original manual.
The Kama Sutra contains detailed information on slapping and describes six areas to slap and four ways to hit.
“The place of striking with passion is the body, and on the body the special places are: The shoulders, the head, the space between the breasts, the back, the jaghana, or middle part of the body, the sides…striking is of four kinds: Striking with the back of the hand, striking with the fingers a little contracted, striking with the fist, striking with the open palm of the hand.”
The Kama Sutra also appears to relate dominance to slapping or spanking, as it contains a passage that discusses a woman becoming dominant over a man which reads, “sometimes carried away by passion a woman puts aside her natural temperament and acts the part of the man by slapping and beating him or play fighting with him…she at the height of excitation becomes hard and fearless and dominates…”