Robin Schone
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Please remember that all Arabic names for genitalia and or sexual intercourse in The Lady’s Tutor are derived solely from The Perfumed Garden. As this Arabic treatise on erotic love is over four hundred years old, certain words or expressions may be obsolete. However, a really nifty Arabic dictionary that I consulted for nonsexual phrases is the ARABIC Hippocrene Handy Dictionary.
In England, the Contagious Disease Acts were repealed in 1886 and Mrs. Josephine Butler’s zealous campaigning was responsible. As incomprehensible as it is to us a century later, one of her main premises for overriding the acts were that the mandatory (vaginal) examination of prostitutes to determine the presence of sexually transmitted diseases deprived women of their dignity.
There did indeed exist a fellowship of minor poets who called themselves ‘Uranians’; they practiced pederasty in the Greek tradition. It is unknown as to whether this group of poets attended Eton.
Any inaccuracies in my portrayal of late Victorian times are, of course, my own. I assure you, I worked very hard to eliminate them.
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