Perhaps the greatest distortions occur in the takeover of Tantra, which
has become an Orientalist wet dream. The belief that the Tantras are in
any way hedonistic or even pornographic, though a belief shared by many
Hindus as well as by some Euro-Americans, is not justified; the
Upanishads and Puranas – not to mention the Kamasutra – have far more respect for pleasure of all kinds, including sexual pleasure, than do the Tantras.
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