The Perfumed Garden Of The Shaykh Nefwazi

The Perfumed Garden Of The Shaykh Nefwazi

Translated by Sir Richard Burton


"The Perfumed Garden by Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi is a sex manual and work of erotic literature. The full title of the book is The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight (al-rawd al-'atir fi nuzhati'l khatir).


The book presents opinions on what qualities men and women should have to be attractive, gives advice on sexual technique, warnings about sexual health, and recipes to remedy sexual maladies. It gives lists of names for the penis and vagina, has a section on the interpretation of dreams, and briefly describes sex among animals. Interspersed with these there are a number of stories which are intended to give context and amuse."


Table Of Contains...


01. Concerning Praiseworthy Men

02. Concerning Women Who Deserve To Be Praised

03. About Men Who Are To Be Held in Contempt

04. About Women Who Are To Be Held in Contempt

05. Relating to the Act of Generation

06. Concerning Everything That Is Favourable to the Act of Coition

07. Of Matters Which Are Injurious in the Act of Generation

08. The Sundry Names Given to the Sexual Parts of Man

09. Sundry Names Given to the Sexual Organs of Women

10. Concerning the Organs of Generation of animals

11. On the Deceits and Treacheries of Women

12. Concerning Sundry Observations Useful to Know for Men and Women

13 .Concerning the Causes of Enjoyment in the Act of Generation

14. Description of the Uterus of Sterile Women, and Treatment of the Same

15. Concerning the Causes of Impotence in Men

16. Undoing of Aiguillettes (Impotence for a Time)

17. Prescriptions for Increasing the Dimensions of Small Members and for Making Them Splendid

18 .Of Things that Take Away the Bad Smell from the Armpit and Sexual Parts of Women and Contract the Latter

19. Instructions with Regard to Pregnancy

20. Forming the Conclusion of This Work