The Perfumed Garden

The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight : A Manual of Arabian Erotology



"Praise be given to God, who has placed man's greatest pleasure in the natural parts of woman, and has destined the natural parts of man to afford the greatest enjoyment to woman." The Perfumed Garden is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic literature. With a no-tabu approach, the book presents opinions on what qualities men and women should have to be attractive and gives advice on sexual technique. in a certain way, it can be compared with the Kama Sutra.