The Jewel in the Lotus: A Historical Survey of the Sexual Culture of the East -- Allen Edwardes

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Condition : Good, considering age.

Seventh Printing, Julian Press, 1962, Vintage Hardback - Sex customs - 293 pp.

The Jewel in the Lotus is a compilation of orientalist erotica named after a famous mantra, written by Allen Edwardes and first published in 1959. Advertised as the masterpiece that reveals the sexual culture of the East, a Wikipedia article describes it as a rather dubious work:

[] an amassment of sexual curiosities apparently plucked from a variety of ethnographical and orientalist sources. Throughout the book, one finds a plethora of uncontrolled generalizations concerning the sexual behaviour of non-western populations. Doubt has been cast on the sincerity of its scholarship. A recent study accuses the author of more than a touch of prurience, and warns that the guise of orientalist scholarship clearly gives Edwardes leeway to express a surfeit of subconscious homoerotic fantasy. As such, the book is a curious and highly specific example of a more general tendency in Western scholarshipor, in this case, rather pseudo-scholarshipwhich has been criticized as Orientalism (Edward Said).

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