291:. Jewish and Muslim boys also engage in this social masturbation. Masturbation is not explicit to young boys. Allegedly, North African Jewish girls perform acts of masturbation with their male relatives. The male relative often reciprocates the act. Sadomasochist themes, which were mentioned in the Genital Intercourse chapter, are also evident in feminine masturbation.
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Edwardes and Masters' fictional portrayal of Eastern sexuality. Boone states that homosexuality is recognized and glorified in Eastern sexuality in order to make Western, white, civilization more
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in Afro-Asian societies to the sleeping and living patterns of children. Two or more young boys often share a room, even a bed in some cases, which often leads to genital play. Patterns of behavior are then formed. In the East, young boys follow a regular pattern of manual and oral stimulation. Those
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Northern and Eastern Africa are specialized in the art of qerdz, or sucking. Arabian, Indian, and African women have all supposedly been found to be employed at these brothels. When their husbands are away from work, Sa’udi Arabia women are mentioned as performing fellatio to random males. Men
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dominance of sex in Afro-Asian sexual practices, especially those relationships seen in the Muslim faith. Conservative
Muslims believe the liberation of women from their natural position of subservience in Muslim culture is a pathway to indulging in lustful sex without shame. Differing from the
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Southeast Asia. The accuracy of the scholarship has been disputed by many of its reviewers, with the work being accused of demonstrating
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contains a greater contractile power than the vagina, and this allows the male greater pleasure through increased friction. The chapter continues to claim that anal intercourse is a routine practice among many Muslim women. The authors claim that
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in certain ethnicities renders place names that distinguish them from their other Afro-Asian cousins. This variation is not seen with the descriptions and measurements of the various penises of Afro-Asian men. In fact, Edwardes and
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Wang Shih-cheng explains how this attraction is as natural as the Earth and one cannot blame this attraction on evil. Edwardes and
Masters then address and explain the
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pure and civilized. He uses the obsession with the penis sizes of
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by Evelyn Hooker praised the intention of the work, but argued its propensity to exaggerate made it unfit for scientifically rigorous research.
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intimate love synonymous with Allah, lustful sex is strictly for physical enjoyment, while intimate sex is a connection in both spirit and body.
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of their wives, sisters, daughters, or any other female relative. Their female counterparts, loose women, are wives that participate in
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of a penis. The authors claim that a female under the influence of hashish had the purported ability to have consecutive vaginal and
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