The Perfumed Garden Sheik Nefzawi Richard F Burton 9781161369410 Books
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The Perfumed Garden Sheik Nefzawi Richard F Burton 9781161369410 Books
If you want to have a better understanding of prejudices about sex during this time period or about Mr. Burton's translation skills, etc, then this book is something you should consider.If you are looking for timeless and wise understanding about human sexuality, do not spend your money on this. Example: to make your dick bigger "...leeches may be put into a bottle and, thus enclosed, buried in a warm dung-hill until they are dissolved into a coherent mass and form of sort of liniment, which is used for repeatedly anointing the member. The member is certain to greatly to benefit by this."
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The Perfumed Garden Sheik Nefzawi Richard F Burton 9781161369410 Books Reviews
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The work stands for itself. I cannot comment on translation. I would only add that this version is small in size and consequently has very small print.
After Sir Richard Burton translated the Arabian Nights and introduced the English speaking world to Scheherazade and her tales of Ali Baba and his 40 Thieves and Aladdin and his magic Lamp, the 19th century soldier/scholar/linguist/adventurer/world class explorer, and, well, dang near everything else, translated THE PERFUMED GARDEN- a manual of Arabian Erotology which is basically a 17th century porn how-to or perhaps, how not to book. 'You want me to do what? How?'
During Burton's time in the Victorian Era it must have seemed scandalous but by today's standards the pages seem tame, semi-enlightening and occasionally humorous. It is frank with its descriptions, enlightening because it puts you in the mindset of how sex was viewed by that culture then and it is humorous for some of its advice.
What kind of advice, you ask? Well, long before there was Viagra the book suggested the hump of a camel melted down and applied might make for a better pre-television commercial intimate moment.
How much of what's in the book is factual? Consider what Burton himself said of the book 'The reader will perhaps also find that probability is frequently sacrificed to imagination.' Huh, just when I was about to shopping for Grade-A camel hump. Ah well...
This edition, with an intro by Burton biographer Mary S. Lovell, should be read by those interested in the extraordinary man's life and times. It shows yet another facet to one of the world's great learned men.
Will it make you blush? Maybe, if you're easily offended by the subject of sex. Burton wasn't but don't fret because you're not alone. When he died his wife, Isabel, burned the original Arabic manuscript which, I suspect, like the privately produced French printing, may have been the one with illustrations.
What remained was Burton's English translation and an intimate look at those who cam..., eh...were here before us.
Sorry, but I'm a Monty Python fan as well.
Interesting reading material & information on matters of relationship between men & women. At times one would wonder whether some of the information quite unbelievable.
Something different and surprising. Mostly kindle will not let me back in to my library until I submit a review.
Fun to read an Medieval period sex manual, with head-on descriptions of male and female genitalia and their interaction.
This books shows that maximizing sensual pleasure has been a serious pursuit in all ages. Translated language is a little awkward.
As a child my folks had a copy of The Perfume Garden and kept it hidden. Of course I ferreted it out. Having since allowed my younger self a liberal exposure to the pornography of ours and other generations I conclude that it is not reasonable to lump The Perfume Garden into the category of pornography. It is only marginally raw enough to be classified as erotica. It is a combination of a 16th century Arabian sex manual and collection of related stories of adult bedroom games. I have something of an amateur's interest in Sir Richard Burton having read two of his biographies. From some of the things he included in his journals he was quite capable of being very explicit on the subject of sexual matters. In this translation it is difficult for a non-Arabic linguist to state categorically that his translation is as explicit as the original or has been compromised in an effort to make it more acceptable to his Victorian audience. This qualification is based on the suspicion that his intended audience was a fairly elite academically oriented Victorian audience.
Irrespective of my hypothesis, The Perfume Garden is a capital "C" Classic. That is the value of its content and its literary merit is established and unlikely to change in stature stature based on my assignment stars. I will justify my recommendation rather than a detailed or summarize the contents.
Within the Muslim community there are advocates of a strict Sharia law that an outsider might find inconsistent with this book. This book reflects 500-year-old Muslim sensibilities and thereby argues for a more nuanced appreciation of Arabic and Muslim culture. This nuanced appreciation is something few Westerners can achieve via general public discussion. By the same token Muslim radicals might want to seriously consider what this portion of their heritage means in the context of those who would be inflexible applying religious law.
My recommendation is that you read this as a cultural artifact, as much a Victorian cultural artifact as an Arabian one. The sex manual portion of the book is not bad. At least it recognizes the value of seducing and satisfying your partner and that hygiene and style matter. The included stories are somewhat dated and stilted but still fun. Given the choices available in the 21st century, The Perfumed Garden is neither hard-core nor explicit. It is a worthy read and indeed worth many times the one dollar being charged for this edition.
If you want to have a better understanding of prejudices about sex during this time period or about Mr. Burton's translation skills, etc, then this book is something you should consider.
If you are looking for timeless and wise understanding about human sexuality, do not spend your money on this. Example to make your dick bigger "...leeches may be put into a bottle and, thus enclosed, buried in a warm dung-hill until they are dissolved into a coherent mass and form of sort of liniment, which is used for repeatedly anointing the member. The member is certain to greatly to benefit by this."
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