![]() ![]() Sign up for our email newsletter, “Bookshelf” Then close your eyes and say ‘Ah!’ with ecstasy that devastates your senses.” Close your eyes, breathe quickly, warble uncontrollably to match the zither’s tremolo. Suddenly, you gasp - softly with pleasure, not fright - and you show uncertainty - no, no, not a frown - a questioning look that changes to acceptance of fate…. Now keep your eyes on him as your face flushes with uncontrolled pleasure. Let your mouth relax, your lips part - not that far. “Let your eyelids fall halfway closed again - too much, that looks like you are asleep…. Before taking her clients to bed, the true courtesan would have to seduce them with couture, plus an archive of zither music, all the while slaying them with perfectly calibrated gazes of longing. ![]() ![]() According to Amy Tan’s scrupulously researched novel “The Valley of Amazement,” a courtesan in 1912 Shanghai would have had to master a hundred sexual positions, including “upward, backward, seated, standing, feet pressed on his stomach, legs in the air, the Bucking Horse, the Swaying Bamboo Shoots, Tigress Meets the Dragon, Oysters in the Turtle Shell” - all of it the distillation of “five thousand years of lovemaking, excitement, and boredom.”Īnd that’s only half of it. And you thought they just had to lie there. ![]()
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