1961 The Jewel in the Lotus: Sexual Culture of the East Allen Edwardes Hardcover

1961 The Jewel in the Lotus: a Historical Survey of the Sexual Culture of the East Allen Edwardes Hardcover In its introduction by the well-known American psychologist Dr. Albert Ellis, it was welcomed as virtually the only existing work in English which systematically describes and analyzes the sex customs and ideas which were prevalent in the East and, especially the Middle East, in pre-twentieth century times. Selecting discriminatingly from the writings of Sir Richard F. Burton, the greatest of all students of Persian-Arabian eroticism, and from classical Oriental sources, Edwardes has patiently classified the most important aspects of Asiatic sex life.