The Perfumed Garden

The great English explorer and author Richard F. Burton offers this translation of a work on sexuality, female sexuality in particular. Selected contents: Concerning women who deserve to be praised; About women who are to be held in contempt; Concerning everything that is favorable to the act of coition; Suindry names given to the sexual part of man; Sundry names given to the sexual organs of women; On the deceits and treacheries of women; Description of the uterus of sterile women, and treatment of the same; Prescriptions for increasing the dimensions of small members, and for making them splendid. This book contains much erotic poetry.