{"id":2256,"date":"2005-09-21T13:52:16","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T18:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=2256"},"modified":"2005-09-22T03:08:50","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T08:08:50","slug":"the_cara_sutra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/21\/the_cara_sutra\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cara Sutra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/CaraSutraLarge.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" hspace=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/CaraSutra.jpg\" align=baseline border=0><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p align=left>Commenter Angie went beyond the call of duty and scanned in this bit of whimsical pop surrealism from Cadbury:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px\">\n<p>&#8230; you&#8217;ll notice some very odd accessories in the drawing: a bbq, a duck flotation device, barnyard, and of all things a PLOW in the background. Maybe this appropriately 5 o&#8217;clock shadowed brown fellow plans on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/002210.html\">hooking up his lady to the plow<\/a> later on&#8230; I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;d want to ruin his sheer silk chiffon shirt and capris with any dirty field work.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I love the musical anachronism, not that it&#8217;s a boombox but that it&#8217;s not an MP3 player. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raymondindia.com\/oc_brand_ks.htm\"><img alt=\"\" hspace=20 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/KamaSutraCondoms.jpg\" align=right vspace=10 border=0><\/a>The two feet pressed together are a randy reference to a sexual position used to much effect by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/002237.html\">Indira Varma<\/a> in Mira Nair&#8217;s soft-core raspberry,&nbsp;<em>Kama Sutra.<\/p>\n\n<p><\/em>Exploitative? Surely there&#8217;s a straight line from chocolate to eroticism. It&#8217;s much more tasteful than Raymond&#8217;s raunchy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raymondindia.com\/oc_brand_ks.htm\">KamaSutra condom ads<\/a>. Oh, yes: the conservative, Indian men&#8217;s suiting company covers everything that might pop up.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenter Angie went beyond the call of duty and scanned in this bit of whimsical pop surrealism from Cadbury: &#8230; you&#8217;ll notice some very odd accessories in the drawing: a bbq, a duck flotation device, barnyard, and of all things &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/21\/the_cara_sutra\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}