Rules for sexual intercourse

A healthy man may have intercourse once a day in the cold season and, in the hot season, keeping his strength in mind, once in five to eight days. Only a man free of disease, young and taking aphrodisiacs is said to be fit for it at all times. It is to be avoided when hungry, thirsty, holding back natural urges, tired from a long walk, afflicted by consumption (the verse: injury), with depleted semen, weak or feverish, by anyone at dawn, with certain women, and at twilight and on festival days.

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Names and synonyms

Sanskrit: व्यवायग्राम्यधर्म
Hindi: मैथुन सेवन
English: Rules for sexual intercourse

Ingredients and preparation

OtherChapter 6 · p. 76 · v. 18-22

How it is used

Once daily in the cold season; in the hot season, according to strength, once in five, six, seven or eight days.

स्वस्थ मनुष्य ठणड के मैसम में प्रतिनित्य एक दफे मैथुन सेवन कर सकता है। उष्ण काल में अपनी शक्ति का रुयाल रखकर पाँच, छह, सात व आठ दिन में एक दफे मैथुन सेवन करना चाहिए।

Organs mentionedReproductive organsप्रजनन अंग

शीते काले नित्यमेकैकवारं। यायात्स्वस्थो ग्राम्यधर्मोपयोगम्॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 6 · p. 76 · v. 18-22.

Safety

Contraindication in the text: Intercourse is to be avoided by one who is hungry or thirsty, has the urge to pass urine, stool or semen, is tired from coming a long way, is afflicted by consumption, has depleted semen, is without strength or has fever; and nobody should have intercourse at dawn.
Contraindication in the text: Intercourse is forbidden with a wicked woman, one of low birth (as the text puts it), one with a defective genital tract, an ill-favoured woman, one with a narrow vaginal opening, a sick woman, a menstruating woman, one not to be touched, an old woman and a king's wife; even with a suitable partner it is not to be had at twilight or on festival days such as the eighth and fourteenth days of the lunar fortnight.
Caution in the text: Only a man whose body is wholly free of disease, who is young and who takes aphrodisiac (desire-increasing, semen-producing) substances is said to be fit for intercourse at all times.

Pregnancy, breastfeeding, children, older adults, kidney or liver disease and other medicines all call for professional advice before any traditional remedy is used.