An edition of الروض العاطر في نزهة الخاطر (1886)
The perfumed garden of the Cheikh Nefzaoui
a manual of Arabian erotology
By ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad Nafzāwī
Publish Date
1886
Publisher
for the Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares
Language
eng
Pages
253
Description:
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.
subjects: 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, Novelty, History, Vie sexuelle, Histoire, Erotica, Éducation sexuelle, Early works
Times: 16th century