Download or read book The Scented Garden written by Bernhard Stern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2008. This encyclopaedic book details the sexual practices and perversions of peoples and cultures throughout the work. Topics include: love and love charms, rental marriages, the bridal night of a princess, the sexual lexicon, chastity and the feeling of shame, onanism and artificial instruments, public prostitution and the sex act.