The Scented Garden: Anthropology of the Sex Life in the Levant

by Bernhard Stern

Overview

First published in 2008. This encyclopaedic book details the sexual practices and perversions of peoples and cultures throughout the work. Topics include: love and love charms, rental marriages, the bridal night of a princess, the sexual lexicon, chastity and the feeling of shame, onanism and artificial instruments, public prostitution and the sex act.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780710309921
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/05/2008
Series:	Kegan Paul Library of Sexual Life Ser.
Pages:	444
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Bernhard Stern, translated by David Berger

Table of Contents

Chapter One - Love and Love Charms, Chapter Two - Marriage in Islam: The Koran and Polygamy, Chapter Three - The Wives of the Prophet Mohammed, Chapter Four - Rights and Duties of the Married Mussulmen, Chapter Five - Divorce and Widows, Chapter Six - Adultery, Chapter Seven - Marriages and Weddings of the Sultans, Chapter Eight - The Power of Women in the Sultan's Harem, Chapter Nine - Wedding Customs of the People in Turkey, Chapter Ten - Physical Aspects of the Bride and Groom, Chapter Eleven - Sexual Lexicon, Chapter Twelve - Menstruation, Chapter Thirteen - Chastity and the Feeling of Shame, Chapter Fourteen - Wickedness, Chapter Fifteen - Public Prostitution, Chapter Sixteen - The Sex Act, Chapter Seventeen - The Kind of Sex Acts, Chapter Eighteen - Pederasty and Sodomy, Chapter Nineteen - Eunuchs and Sexual Perversions, Chapter Twenty - Onanism and Artificial Instruments, Chapter Twenty-One - Venereal Diseases, Chapter Twenty-Two - Impotence, Chapter Twenty-Three - Fertility and Sterility, Chapter Twenty-Four - Abortions, Chapter Twenty-Five - Midwives, Chapter Twenty-Six - Customs During Pregnancy, Chapter Twenty-Seven - Delivery, Chapter Twenty-Eight - Confinement, Chapter Twenty-Nine - Mother's Milk and Wet-Nurses, Chapter Thirty - The Child, Chapter Thirty-One - Boys and Girls, Chapter Thirty-Two - Miscarriages and the Naming of Children, Chapter Thirty-Three - Circumcision