Voodoo - Eros : Ethnological Studies In The Sex Life of the African Aborigines (limited edition)

LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, UNITED BOOK GUILD, NY, 1964, hardcover, illustrated, 251 pages, jacket protector, some minor wear to dust jacket, otherwise condition; as new.

Voodoo-Eros covers many subjects such as clothing, ornaments, dress, skin decoration, courtship, prostitution, conjugal practices, sexual taboos, children, infidelity, hygiene, circumcision, pregnancy, and much more. The author spent 2 years in villages in Equatorial Africa, north of Victoria Nyanza with tribes of Bantu, Bagishu, Baganda, Budama, Banioro, Kitosh, Kikuyu, Maragoli, Kavironda, Suaheli, Semi-hamites, Nandi, Wandorobbo, Tiriki, Aldai, Sebeyii, Elkoyni, and Suk. The author states that the material presented in this book is for the purpose of revising the false conception we have about the differences of love in the different races. Illustrated with over 100 photographs including one of an hermaphrodite.

 This revised limited edition, a reprint of the first English-language edition of 1934, was distributed, on subscription, to physicians and adult students of anthropology and sexology..