Praise for Colin Spencer's Homosexuality In History: 'A tour de force. a highly readable overview of the history of gay men and women and their place in society.a significant contribution to the current debate over civil rights for lesbians and gays.'Hastings Wyman, Jr, Bookworld 'Colin Spencer has undertaken, with astonishing success, nothing less than a universal survey of homosexuality, in both men and women, throughout history, all over the world. Spencer's narrative of homophobic bigotry, hatred and violence is often disturbing, yet ultimately offers the hope that a fear that once did not exist will someday cease to be.' Walter Kendrick, author of The Secret Museum + The Thrill Of Fear. 'Spencer is deft at exposing the murkiness that surrounded all sexual activity, wherever found in the West, from the early medieval period to somewhere as late as the 1960s. . . By uncovering the wider text, social, political, religious, he helps us to remember what we are in danger of forgetting even now: that our attitudes to sex are conditioned.' Jeanette Winterson. Written in India in the second through fourth centuries AD The Kama Sutra has been regarded for centuries as one of the world's central texts on sexuality and its relation to spiritual development. Originally intended to provide adolescents with a clear, uninhibited understanding of human sexuality, as well as rules for conducting themselves in society, the work is a hymn to life's pleasures and a guide to achieving the union between the life of the spirit and that of the flesh. In The Gay Kama Sutra, Colin Spencer has faithfully adapted the timeless precepts of the original text into a celebration of the spiritual and sexual expressions of homoeroticism. The book applies the expert sexual techniques and practical instructions contained in the Kama Sutra, and applied them to gay love-making. Each chapter is based on different lessons from the Kama Sutra, and thirty of the original illustrations of the Kama Sutra's famously arousing and unrestrained representations of sex are reproduced in this book, along with contemporary art that celebrates the male body. In The Gay Kama Sutra, the Kama Sutra's joyful and uninhibited approach to sensuality in all its richness, its connection of fleshy pleasure to all else in life, has been restored for the expression of male homosexual love in all its fullness.