It is employed, together with biting, by those to whom the practice is agreeable. To be continued… This pressing is used in the case of a young girl when her lover shampoos her, scratches her head, and wants to trouble or frighten her. A man, also, who carries the marks of nails and teeth on some parts of his body, influences the mind of a woman, even though it be ever so firm. Based entirely on works of Mallanaga Vatsyayana. Vatsyayana cites earlier – now lost – Indian texts from the Babhraya’s school, for these eight categories of embraces. When a person presses the chin, the breasts, the lower lip, or the jaghana of another so softly that no scratch or mark is left, but only the hair on the body becomes erect from the touch of the nails, and the nails themselves make a sound, it is called a ‘sounding or pressing with the nails’. If there be no marks of nails to remind a person of the passages of love, then love is lessened in the same way as when no union takes place for a long time.’
Even when a stranger sees at a distance a young woman with the marks of nails on her breast, 1 he is filled with love and respect for her.
