Scented Garden : Anthropology of the Sex Life in the Levant

by Bernhard, Stern

• ISBN13: 9780710309921
• ISBN10: 0710309929
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Taylor and Fran

Summary

This encyclopedic book details the sexual practices and perversions of peoples and cultures throughout the world. 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.

Table of Contents

Love and love charms	p. 13
Marriage in Islam : the Koran and polygamy	p. 27
The wives of the prophet Mohammed	p. 39
Rights and duties of the married Mussulmen	p. 47
Divorce and widows	p. 61
Adultery	p. 71
Marriages and weddings of the sultans	p. 83
The power of women in the sultan's harem	p. 105
Wedding customs of the people in Turkey	p. 135
Physical aspects of the bride and groom	p. 163
Sexual lexicon	p. 175
Menstruation	p. 185
Chastity and the feeling of shame	p. 197
Wickedness	p. 213
Public prostitution	p. 229
The sex act	p. 243
The kind of sex acts	p. 255
Pederasty and sodomy	p. 265
Eunuchs and sexual perversions	p. 279
Onanism and artificial instruments	p. 293
Venereal diseases	p. 303
Impotence	p. 309
Fertility and sterility	p. 321
Abortions	p. 331
Midwives	p. 341
Customs during pregnancy	p. 349
Delivery	p. 361
Confinement	p. 379
Mother's milk and wet-nurses	p. 389
The child	p. 401
Boys and girls	p. 413
Miscarriages and the naming of children	p. 425
Circumcision	p. 435
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