The perfumed garden of the Cheikh Nefzaoui

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The perfumed garden of the Cheikh Nefzaoui

ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad Nafzāwī

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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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Edition	Rev. and corr. translation.
Pages	236
Search language	french

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