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The Perfumed Garden


El addad {the biter).—The vulva which, when the member has got into it and is burning with passion, opens and shuts again upon the same fiercely. It is chiefly when the ejaculation is coming that the man feels the head of his member bitten by the mouth of the matrix. And certainly there is an attractive power in the same when it clings, yearning for sperm, to the gland, and draws it in as far as it can. If God in his power has decreed that the woman shall become pregnant the sperm gets concentrated in the matrix, where it is gradually vivified; but if, on the contrary, God does not permit the conception, the matrix expels the seed, which then runs over the vagina.

El meusass (the sucker).—This is a vagina which in its amorous heat in consequence of voluptuous toyings, or of long abstinence, begins to suck the member which has entered it so forcibly as to deprive it of all its sperm, dealing with it like a child draws the breast of the mother.

The poets have described it in the following verses:

"She—the woman—shows in turning up her robe
An object—the vulva—developed full and round.
In semblance like a cup turned upside down.
In placing thereupon your hand, you seem to feel
 A well formed bosom, springy, firm, and full.
In boring in your lance it gets well bitten.
And drawn in by a suction, as the breast is by a child
And after having finished, if you wish to re-commence,
You'll find it flaming hot as any furnace."

Another poet (may God grant all his wishes in Paradise!) has composed on the same theme the following:

"Like to a man extended on his chest, she—the vulva—fills the hand
which has to be well stretched to cover it.
The place it occupies is standing forth
Like an unopened bud of the blossom of a palm tree.
Assuredly the smoothness of its skin.