The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefwazi

by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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A fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of literature. The book presents opinions on what qualities men and women should have to be attractive, gives advice on sexual technique, warnings about sexual health, and recipes to remedy sexual maladies. It gives lists of names for the reproductive organs and has a section on the interpretation of dreams, and briefly describes sex among animals. Interspersed with these there are a number of stories which are intended to give context and amusement.