Editing Sex position (section)

==History==
[[File:SungaLoveScene.jpg|thumb|A love scene sculpture from the [[Shunga Empire|Sunga]] period ({{circa|1st century BCE}})]]

[[Sex manual]]s typically present a guide to sex positions. They have a long history. In the Greco-Roman era, a sex manual was written by
[[Philaenis|Philaenis of Samos]], possibly a [[hetaira]] ([[courtesan]]) of the [[Hellenistic period]] (3rd–1st century BC).<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Erôs in Ancient Greece|author1=Sanders, E.|author2=Thumiger, C.|author3=Carey, C.|author4=Lowe, N.|date=2013|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=9780199605507|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qt7JkvxScSkC|page=287|access-date=2014-12-07|archive-date=2016-09-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912072351/https://books.google.com/books?id=qt7JkvxScSkC|url-status=live}}</ref> The ''[[Kama Sutra]]'' of [[Vatsyayana]], believed to have been written in the 1st to 6th centuries, has a notorious reputation as a sex manual. Different sex positions result in differences in the depth and angle of sexual penetration. [[Alfred Kinsey]] categorized six primary positions.<ref>6 Positions For Sexual Intercourse - In Order Of Popularity - Sex, Love And Marriage - Book of Lists - Canongate Home</ref> The earliest known European medieval text dedicated to sexual positions is the ''[[Speculum al foderi]]'', (The Mirror of Coitus) a 15th-century [[Catalan language|Catalan]] text discovered in the 1970s.<ref>Michael R. Solomon, editor (1986). ''Text and Concordance of Speculum al foderi, Biblioteca Nacional MS. 3356''. {{ISBN|0-942260-60-0}}</ref><ref>Michael R. Solomon (1990). ''The Mirror of coitus: a translation and edition of the fifteenth-century Speculum al foderi''. Spanish. {{ISBN|0-940639-48-3}}</ref>