For centuries the Kama Sutra has remained the classic guide on how to spice up sexcapades. And contrary to popular believe, the text is not just a manual detailing ways to turn the bedroom into your own private porno—although it include some pretty kinky material. The content of the book actually includes sections on foreplay, courting a wife, privileges of a wife versus other men’s wives and courtesans (like I said, kinky) and improving physical attractions.

All that aside, the Kama Sutra is best known for its sexual strategies. The 2,000-year-old text describes and illustrates a variety of sexual positions that are sure to spice up anyone’s sex life. The problem with many of them, however, is if anyone can manage to twist and turn into the coital arrangements, they are likely to end up in the hospital. Seriously. Have you ever seen the illustration for—much less attempted—the “suspended congress?”

“When a man supports himself against a wall, and the woman, sitting on his hands joined together and held underneath her, throws her arms round his neck, and putting her thighs alongside his waist, moves herself by her feet, which are touching the wall against which the man is leaning, it is called the ‘suspended congress.”

Say what? And the illustration doesn’t offer much help, either. It really just looks like a game of naked Twister gone bad. But a new app promises to unravel the mysteries of the Kama Sutra with 3D images that finally make some sense. The Kama Xcitra app uses 3D augmented reality technology so smartphone and tablet users get 360-degree access to the Kama Sutra’s diagrams.

“For more than two thousand years couples have turned to the Kama Sutra for advice and guidance on how to have a fulfilling love life,” said MD of publisher Xcite Books, Hazel Cushion. “But some of the more challenging positions like the Prone Tiger, the Catherine Wheel or the Peg have left readers a little baffled. That is until now.”

The app offers more than 3D diagrams, however. Users can also personalize their holograms so the couples in the images look like… well… themselves—or their fantasies. The hair and skin color of the image models can be altered, and a mood-enhancing soundtrack can even be added (bom-chicha-bow-wow).

“Each image appears to pop out of the page as a 3D hologram right in front of the reader’s phone. The viewer then moves their mobile device around to appreciate the position from all angles,” Cushion said. “As a result, each position becomes clearer, finally solving the problem of where to put that awkward elbow.”

Users won’t find the app in iTunes of the Google Play Store, however. The Kama Xcitra app is available as a free download from Amazon with the purchase of the Kama Xcitra book for $11.99. But the app works in conjunction with all 69 Kama Sutra positions described in the book, so the two are truly companion pieces.