When a man under some pretext or other goes in front or alongside of a woman and touches her body with his own, it is called the ‘touching embrace’. For example, the text discusses eight forms of alingana (embrace) in verses 2.2.7–23: sphrishtaka, viddhaka, udghrishtaka, piditaka, lataveshtitaka, vrikshadhirudha, tilatandula and kshiranira. Desi video the part of the body from the navel downwards to the thighs. the embrace, kissing, scratching with the nails or fingers, biting, lying down, making various sounds, playing the part of a man, and the Auparishtaka, or mouth congress. the part of the body from the navel downwards to the thighs. However the part sixty-four is now treated of, and the embrace, being the first subject, will now be considered. When lovers lie on a bed, and embrace each other so closely that the arms and thighs of the one are encircled by the arms and thighs of the other, and are, as it were, rubbing up against
