Editing Foreplay (section)

== History ==
There are many historical references to foreplay, with many artistic depictions. The [[History of India|Ancient Indian]] work ''[[Kama Sutra]]'' mentions different types of embracing, kissing, and marking with nails and teeth.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.businessbuildersbanquet.com/software/kamasutra.pdf|title=The Kama Sutra of Vatsayayana: Translation by Sir Richard Burton|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305175755/http://www.businessbuildersbanquet.com/software/kamasutra.pdf |archive-date=5 March 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|website=Internet Sacred Text Archive|url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/kama/kama205.htm|title=Kama Sutra Chapter V: On Biting, and the Means to be Employed with regard to Women of Different Countries|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203071615/https://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/kama/kama205.htm |archive-date=3 December 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|website=Internet Sacred Text Archive|url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/kama/kama204.htm|title=Kama Sutra Chapter IV: On Pressing, or Marking, or Scratching with the Nails|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507112053/https://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/kama/kama204.htm |archive-date=7 May 2021 }}</ref> It also mentions [[BDSM]] activities such as slapping and moaning as "play".<ref>{{cite web|website=Internet Sacred Text Archive|url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/kama/kama207.htm|title=Kama Sutra Chapter VII: Of the Various Modes of Striking, and of the Sounds Appropriate to them|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013025946/http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/kama/kama207.htm |archive-date=13 October 2007 }}</ref> There are also examples of the use of foreplay in marital advice literature that dates back to the early 1900s.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Laipson |first=Peter |date=1 March 1996 |title="Kiss Without Shame, For She Desires It": Sexual Foreplay in American Marital Advice Literature, 1900-1925 |url=https://academic.oup.com/jsh/article-abstract/29/3/507/976272?redirectedFrom=fulltext |journal=Journal of Social History |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=507–525 |doi=10.1353/jsh/29.3.507 |issn=0022-4529 |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 July 2023 |archive-date=17 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230717143647/https://academic.oup.com/jsh/article-abstract/29/3/507/976272?redirectedFrom=fulltext |url-status=live }}</ref>