NINE (9) MOVEMENTS OF THE MAN

The Kama Sutra enumerates nine distinct categories of male sexual movements during love-making. This ninefold division, along with the tradition of Nine Kinds of Sexual Union (according to sexual sizes), is a constant feature of metaphysical systemization (see "The Yang Number" for a detailed description of the subtle meaning of the number nine and its multiples). The Nine Movements of the Man are:

MOVING FORWARD
The Lingam is moved forward, directly into the Yoni.

CHURNING
The Lingam is held by the hand and turned and churned around in the Yoni.

PIERCING
The Yoni is lowered, and the upper part of it is then struck with the Lingam.

RUBBING
This is the same action as Piercing, done to the lower part of the Yoni.

GIVING A BLOW
The Lingam is removed some distance from the Yoni and then brought back to forcibly strike it. This is known as Giving a Blow.

BLOW OF A B O AR
This is when only one part of the Yoni is rubbed by the Lingam.

SPORTING OF A SPARROW
This is when the Lingam is deep in the Yoni and is moved up and down repeatedly, without being taken out. This takes place at the approach to climax and should be a playful movement.

PRESSING
This is when the Lingam is inside the Yoni and is pressed deep within.

TOGETHER PRESSING
This is when the man and woman press the Lingam and Yoni alternately, without any withdrawal. It creates a rapid climax.

When a woman is acting the part of a man, she can enact his nine movements. The classical texts state that a man should always make a point of pressing or focusing on those parts of her body on which she turns her eye. A man should learn from the actions and sounds of a woman during love-making so that he becomes aware of her disposition and the way she best likes to be enjoyed. The Kama Sutra states that when a woman is enjoying lovemaking, she shows increased willingness to join the Lingam and Yoni as close together as possible.

Taoist texts list ten different ways for a woman to act during love-making. We enumerate these in the section entitled "Secrets of the Plain Girl," under the subhead "Ten Ways of Moving." This type of categorization is  helpful, since it indicates the order in which passion is physically manifested. Tantric texts attach great significance to stages of sexual excitement, seeing them as reflections of a greater cosmology, the order of the evolution of universes. The Hevajra Tantra, for example, states, "From the union of Lingam and Yoni, the earth element arises out of contact with the quality of hardness. From the flow of secretions, the water element is evoked by the friction of love-making. The air element arises from the movements of lovers approaching ecstasy, and the space element corresponds to the all-pervading Bliss."

"One of the man's chief duties is to learn to withhold himself as much as possible and at the same time to hasten the enjoyment of his partner. The desires of the woman are cooler and slower to rouse than those of the man; she is not easily satisfied by a single act of lovemaking. Her slower excitement demands prolonged embraces, and if these are denied her, then she often feels irritated. By the second love-act the passions of a woman become thoroughly aroused and she has a full orgasm; then she can be said to be contented. This  state of  affairs is reversed in the case of a man, who approaches the first act burning with love-heat, which cools during the second, often leaving him languid and disinclined for a third."
ANANGA RANGA