About this book
The Perfumed Garden is a sex manual written in erotic prose. It gives advice on bodily appearance, sexual technique, and also on the symptoms and remedies for sexual diseases. Al-Nafzawi also describes the sex of animals and interprets dreams. The advice and technical descriptions are interspersed with stories which should give the manual context and amuse the reader.
Why it was banned
Richard Francis Burton's 1886 English translation of the 15th-century Arabic erotic manual by Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi, banned in New Zealand as objectionable under the Indecent Publications Act 1963 for explicit sexual content.
Bans
| Country | Year | Reasons | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | 1886lifted | Sexual | ||
| Classified as objectionable under the New Zealand Indecent Publications Act 1963. The Act was superseded by the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993; classification status treated as historical. | ||||