The Perfumed Garden

"Your religion resides in your vulva, and the manly member is your soul." A book about sex, with various positions, advices, medical hints, and anecdotes. Sounds like a run of the mill sex education book right? Well, how about this. It was written sometime in the 15th century (around 600 years ago),......more

As a child my folks had a copy of The Perfume Garden and kept it hidden. Of course I ferreted it out. Having since allowed my younger self a liberal exposure to the pornography of ours and other generations I conclude that it is not reasonable to lump The Perfume Garden into the category of pornogra......more

Similar in content to the Kama Sutra, but doused with stories and hence reminiscent of 1001 Arabian Nights. It's also noticeably misogynistic. The most informationally~oriented chapters: Chapter 8 : around 68 euphemisms for the male member, with a mid~chapter discussion on dreams. Chapter 9 : Ditto vi......more

A book advised by Kumar. I found of it a version digitized on the site of BNF. It is a kind Romans Courtois of the Middle Age. But sex is present, naturally, a quest of pleasure . It is a translation a little old-fashioned of the end of XIXth. And I understand the fascination of this people for this......more

So far, the most enjoyable, luscious, lascivious, erotic, hard-core, improper, lecherous. lustful, naughty, pornographic, racy, risqué, sexually explicit and '50 Shades Of Grey' '15th century Islamic' book I've read so far. Its is, after all, the Arabic cum Islamic Kamasutra, with a lot of raunchy st......more