The Perfumed Garden
Chapter 12 - Concerning Sundry Observations Useful to Know for Men and Women
Know, O Vizir (to whom God be good!), that the information contained in this chapter is of the greatest utility,
and it is only in this book that such can be found. Assuredly to know things is better than to be ignorant of them.
Knowledge may be bad, but ignorance is still more so.
The knowledge in question concerns matters unknown to you, and relating to women.
There was once a woman, named Moârbeda, who was considered to be the most knowing and wisest person of her time.
She was a philosopher. One day various queries were put to her, and among them the following, which I shall give here,
with her answers.
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'Which virile members are preferred by women? What women are most eager for coitus,
and which are those who detest it? Which are the men preferred by women, and which are those whom they abominate?'
She answered, 'Not all women have the same conformation of vulva, and they also differ in their manner of making love,
and in their love for and their aversion to things. The same disparities exist in men,
both with regard to their organs and their tastes. A woman of plump form and with a shallow uterus
will look out for a member which is both short and thick, which will completely fill her vagina,
without touching the bottom of it; a long and large member would not suit her. A woman with a deep lying uterus,
and consequently a long vagina, only yearns for a member which is long and thick and of ample proportions,
and thus fills her vagina in its whole extension; she will despise the man with a small and slender member
for he could never satisfy her in coition.
'The following distinctions exist in the temperaments of women: the bilious, the melancholy, the sanguine,
the phlegmatic, and the mixed. Those with a bilious or melancholy temperament are not much given to coitus,
and like it only with men of the same disposition. Those who are sanguine or phlegmatic love coition to excess,
and if they encounter a member, they would never let it leave their vulva if they could help it.
With these also it is only men of their own temperament who can satisfy them,
and if such a woman were married to a bilious or melancholy man, they would lead a sorry life together.
As regards mixed temperaments, they exhibit neither a marked predilection for, nor aversion against coitus.
'It has been observed that under all circumstances little women love coitus more and evince a stronger affection
for the virile member than women of a large size. Only long and vigorous members suit them;
in them they find the delight of their existence and of their couch.
'There are also women who love the coitus only on the edge of their vulva,
and when a man lying upon them wants to get his member into the vagina,
they take it out with the hand and place its gland between the lips of the vulva.'
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'There are also women who do not care for coition because all their ideas turn upon the grandeurs, personal honours,
ambitious hopes, or business cares of the world. With others this indifference springs, as it may be,
from purity of the heart, or from jealousy, or from a pronounced tendency of their souls towards another world,
or lastly from past violent sorrows. Furthermore, the pleasures which they feel in coition depend not alone upon the size
of the member, but also upon the particular conformation of their own natural parts.
Amongst those the vulva called from its form el mortebâ, the square one, and el mortafâ, the projecting, is remarkable.
This vulva has the peculiarity of projecting all round when the woman is standing up and closes her thighs.
It burns for the coitus, its slit is narrow, and it is also called el keulihimi, the pressed one.
The woman who has such a one likes only large members, and they must not let her wait long for the crisis.
But this is a general characteristic of women.
'As to the desire of men for coition, I must say that they also are addicted to it
more or less according to their different temperaments, five in number, like the women's,
with the difference that the hankering of the woman after the member is stronger than that of the man after the vulva.'
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