In the words of one jacket blurb: the "Koka Shastra" (Trans. A. Comfort, Allen & Unwin, 1964) and its associated texts are to mediaeval literature what the "Kama Sutra" was to ancient.

When Kokkoka turned in the twelfth century to the themes of love and sex the move was audacious: for a thousand years the "Kama Sutra" representing the summed wisdom of earlier times, had been supreme. What more was there to say? Mediaeval India was different to the India of Vatsyayana.

"A new approach was needed yet the early pages suggest that we are reading a new abridgement of the classic work, a sibling rather than a sequel."

And Kokkoka frequently expresses his debt to the earlier master. The abiding value of the Sanskrit texts, as of many other ancient works, is the positive attitude to human sexuality.