The perfumed garden /
Muhammad Al-Nafzawi ; translated by Sir Richard Burton.
- [Auckland, N.Z.] : Floating Press, �2009.
- 1 online resource (1 electronic document (275 pages))
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The Perfumed Garden is a sex manual written in erotic prose. It gives advice on bodily appearance, sexual technique, and also on the symptoms and remedies for sexual diseases. Al-Nafzawi also describes the sex of animals and interprets dreams. The advice and technical descriptions are interspersed with stories which should give the manual context and amuse the reader.
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Sex instruction--Early works to 1800. Erotic literature, Arabic. HEALTH & FITNESS--Sexuality. MEDICAL--Reproductive Medicine & Technology. Erotic literature, Arabic. Sex instruction.