"Your religion resides in your vulva, and the manly member is your soul." A book about sex, with various positions, advi…"Your religion resides in your vulva, and the manly member is your soul." A book about sex, with various positions, advices, medical hints, and anecdotes. Sounds like a run of the mill sex education book right?Well, how about this. It was written sometime in the 15th century (around 600 years ago), an Arabic-Islamic sex manual, written for readers of that time. Now THAT'S interesting. The translation itself is fairly old, translated into English more than 100 years back, and that itself is interesting. You see, the translated book was intended for a private group only, with limited prints, has a prologue that apologizes to the reader for its content, and doesn't translate the last chapter, which is apparently about butt sex with men. How times have changed! There used to be a time when the west would censor us because of how dirty we WERE. How times have changed, Gulf Countries and Iran. The book has lots of tips. Foreplay is very important, various positions are described, herbs and such are used, precautions, health concerns, and my favorites, small stories, to illustrate the point. "You kiss my hand--my mouth should be the place! O woman, thou who art my idol!It was a fond kiss you gave me, but it is lost,The hand cannot appreciate the nature of a kiss."I do wish I knew Arabic to read the text in the original, specially the poems, such as this hot number,"I prefer a young man for coition, and him only; He is full of courage--he is my sole ambition, His member is strong to deflower the virgin, And richly proportioned in all its dimensions; It has a head like to a brazier.Enormous, and none like it in creation; Strong it is and hard, with the head rounded off. It is always ready for action and does not die down; It never sleeps, owing to the violence of its love. It sighs to enter my vulva, and sheds tears on …