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    The Perfumed Garden
    The Perfumed Garden
    The Perfumed Garden
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Perfumed Garden

    Written by Sheikh Nefzaoui

    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The 15th-century Arabian text The Perfumed Garden stands with India's "The Karma Sutra" as one of the greatest erotic texts in classic literature.

    It is primarily a manual for sexual activity of all kinds, dealing in some considerable detail with physical attributes, foreplay, coital positions and advice for how to achieve greater satisfaction for both partners, as well as sexual health.

    In addition, it contains some enlivening stories of sexual encounters and sexual needs fulfilled.

    Jonathan reads Richard Burton's famous 1886 translation with aplomb.

    Public Domain (P)2012 Naxos AudioBooks

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateNov 1, 2012
    ISBN9781843797128
    The Perfumed Garden

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    • 1/5
      Repetitive, dull, and only exciting to those who do little and are shock by much. Islamic porn - "God be merciful to them as well as to all Mussulmans! Amen". Addressed only to men, about women and that curious entanglement they call "sex". It turns out it is actual "union". It is contract. You cannot disguise it with harems and multiple wives and servanthoods.
    • 3/5
      If nothing else, this book of short stories that serve as examples of the best ways to treat love and the lovelorn are amusing. The appetites represented range form heterosexual to homosexual to beastial. Not nor all tastes and not completely to mine. But an interesting insight into adifferent culture.
    • 3/5
      Indeholder "Indledning", "Kapitel 1, der handler om prisværdige mænd", "Kapitel 2, der handler om prisværdige kvinder", "Kapitel 3, der handler om foragtelige mænd", "Kapitel 4, der handler om foragtelige kvinder", "Kapitel 5, der handler om kønsakten", "Kapitel 6, der handler om alt det, der er gunstigt for samleje", "Kapitel 7, der handler om det, der er skadeligt for kønsakten", "Kapitel 8, der handler om det mandlige lems forskellige navne", "Kapitel 9, der handler om de kvindelige kønsdeles forskellige navne", "Kapitel 10, der handler om kønsdelene hos dyr", "Kapitel 11, der handler om kvinders list og bedragerier", "Kapitel 12, der handler om forskellige nyttige sager både for mænd og kvinder", "Kapitel 13, der handler om de ting, der gør kønsakten behagelig", "Kapitel 14, er en beskrivelse af den golde livmoder og dens særlige behandling", "Kapitel 15, der handler om svangerskabsafbrydende midler", "Kapitel 16, der handler om impotens hos mænd", "Kapitel 17, der angår behandlingen af impotens", "Kapitel 18, der fortæller, hvordan man kan udvikle lemmet og give det et smukt udseende", "Kapitel 19, om hvordan en kvinde fjerner dårlig lugt fra sine armhuler og sin skede, og hvordan hun får denne til at trække sig sammen", "Kapitel 20, der handler om svangerskab og de tegn, der viser barnets køn", "Kapitel 21, hvori værket afsluttes, og vigtigheden af at spise æg omtales".Pudsigt skrift, som er en blanding af seksualoplysning og hyldest til Allah for at have skabt kvinden og manden således at de har glæde ved hinanden.