- Early works to 1800, Erotic literature, Sex instruction, Sex education
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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Cool, spare, intimate and warm.
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 250
- Publisher
- Kessinger Publishing, Thorsons, Kegan Paul International
- Editions
- 139
- Language
- German, French, English, Arabic
- ISBN
- 9782859400057
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