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The Perfumed Garden
- Author
- Bailey, Alicia
- Title
- The Perfumed Garden.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Lake City, CO, Raven Press, 2002.
- Description
- 11 p.: co. ill.; 1.5 x 2 x 3 in. box with book.
- Notes
- No. 10 of 20. Signed by artist. Color laserprint on Mohawk Superfine papers. Bound drum leaf style. Housed in a carved soapstone box.
- Summary
- Drawing from the 16th-century Arab love manual The Perfumed Garden by Sheikh Nefzawi, “likely the most famous of the Arab love manuals. This book is based on … the eleven basic lovemaking postures.” Features images of each posture. Inset: “Praise be given to Allah who has placed man’s greatest pleasure in the natural parts of woman and had destined the natural parts of man to afford the greatest enjoyment to woman.”
- Kinsey subjects
- Book arts. Carved figures. Sex in art. Sex in religious art--Deities. Sex variations. Sex variations in art.