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Bernhard Stern

    Bauernfeld
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    Die Romanows: Intime Eipsoden aus Ihren Familien- und Hofleben
    Abdul Hamid II
    The Private Life Of The Romanoffs
    The Scented Garden
    • 2022
    • 2022
    • 2001

      The Scented Garden

      Anthropology of the Sex Life in the Levant

      • 444 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      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.

      The Scented Garden