The Scented Garden
Auteur / Author : Stern, Bernhard, M.D.
Titre / Title : The Scented Garden. Anthropology of the Sex Life in the Levant, translated from the German by David Berger M.A.
Éditeur / Publisher : Falstaff Press, American Ethnological Press
Lieu d’édition / Place of Publication : New York
Collection / Series :
Année d’édition originale / First Year of Publication : 1903
Année d’édition / Year of Publication : 1934
Période / Period : XXe siècle / 20th Century, (1900-1909)
Nombre de pages / Number of Pages : 443
Illustrateur / Illustrator : Artistes variés. / Various artists.
Illustration : Nombreuses photographies N&B de jeunes femmes nues. / Many B&W pictures of naked young women.
Langue / Language : Langue anglaise / English Language
Caractéristiques / Specifications : Édition limitée. / Limited edition. No 56 / 600. Printed for Subscribers.
Résumé / Summary : "Dr. Bernhard Stern spent 5 years in the Orient gathering data for this book. Conferring with famous oriental physicians, priests and students of folk-lore in the Turkish capital, and then on numerous distant journeys into the interior of the European and Asiatic Orient, all reports bearing on the contents of this book which were in any manner obtainable. There are chapters on "Love Potions", Eunuchs, Marriage in Islam, The Wives of the Prophet Mohammed, Divorce and Widows, Adultery, The Power of Women in the Sultan’s Harem and The Sex Act and many more." Source: Back cover of a recent paperback edition (2001).
Mots clés : Pédérastie Keywords : Pederasty
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