The Perfumed Garden of Cheikh Nefzaoui
A Manual of Arabian Erotology
by ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad Nafzāwī, Intro. by Franklin S. Kalf, Jan Hutchinson, Kirsty McKenzie, and Ken Brass
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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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Early works to 1800, Erotic literature, Sex instruction, Sex education, Sex, Sex (Psychology), Love, Fiction, erotica, Directories, Fiction, Littérature érotique, Ouvrages avant 1800, Sex in literature, Sex customs, Sexual intercourse, Gardens, Fiction, general, Classic Literature, Fiction, erotica, general, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Non-Classifiable, NoveltyTimes
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The Perfumed Garden of Cheikh Nefzaoui: A Manual of Arabian Erotology
May 1, 1999, Signet Classics
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The Illustrated Perfumed Garden: A Sensuous Paradise Where Erotic Love Grows and Blooms
May 1996, Harpercollins
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Perfumed Garden of the Sheikh Nefzaoui
May 1995, Universal Sales Marketing
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The perfumed garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi: translated by Richard F. Burton.
1964, Castle Books, distributed by Book Sales
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"LEARN, O Vizir (God's blessing be upon you), that there are different sorts of men and women, that amongst these are those who are worthy of praise, and those who deserve reproach."
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