Synopsis

'The Art of the bedchamber forms the pinnacle of human emotions.' Many artists, poets and writers through the centuries, like this ancient Chinese commentator, have described, analysed can be anything from sweet surrender to mutual attraction to the defilement of innocence by a heartless adventure. And the range of advice on the techniques of the act of love is wide too. Many writers and artists express also the delights of such 'forbidden' fruits as masturbation, voyeurism, oral sex, homosexuality and orgies. From Roman sex manuals to the erotic memoirs of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from the Chinese ancients to Casanova, from The Golden Lotus to Fanny Hill from Ovid to Boswell, from Ming poets to Metaphysical ones, Secrets of Love draws on many writings, many cultures - including Greek, Arab, Indian and Oriental - and many eras to evoke the essence of human sexual experience. The book chronicles our ceaseless fascination with the transformative power of sex and presents ancient erotic arts for modern delectation.

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