'series="Grands classiques de l'érotologie moderne"' in OBA Collectie

Attitudes toward homosexuality in the pre-modern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic. On the one hand, Arabic love poetry, biographical works, and bawdy satires suggest that homosexuality was a visible and tolerated part of Arab-Is...

This work is concerned with understanding men's and women's lives in the ancient world. The first half of the book considers the interpretation of erotic dreams, the sexual behaviour of political candidates and the ways in which men might have compelled...