Far Eastern Sex Life – George Ryley Scott (1949)

S$48.00

Far Eastern Sex Life – George Ryley Scott (1949)

S$48.00

Title: Far Eastern Sex Life: An Anthropological, Ethnological and Sociological Study of the Love Relations, Marriage Rites and Home Life of the Oriental Peoples

Author: George Ryley Scott

Publisher: Gerald G. Swan, London, 1949. 3rd impression.

Condition: Hardcover, good. Back hinge netting exposed, some foxing and tanning to pages. With black-and-white illustrated plates. 198pp. 8.5″ by 5.5″.

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Contents:

  1. The Religions of China and Japan
  2. Marriage and the Family
  3. The Eunuchs of China
  4. The Girl Slaves of China
  5. Prostitution in the Chinese Empire
  6. The Revelation of Sing Fu Lu
  7. Prostitution in Japan
  8. The Geisha Girls of Japan
  9. Torture as Practised in China
  10. Crime and Punishment in Japan
  11. The Opium Dens of China
  12. Festivals and Ceremonies
  13. The Cleanest People on Earth!
  14. The Control of Population
  15. Some Strange Sexual and Social Customs and Conditions (Birth customs, foot-binding, etc)

About the author (from Wikipedia):

George Ryley Scott (1886 – c. 1980) was a prolific British author of books about sexual intercourse, active from the late 1920s to the 1970s. He also wrote on the subjects of poultry, health, corporal punishment, and writing itself. His History of Prostitution from Antiquity to the Present Day, which has been much reprinted, was the first work of its kind to promote a tolerationist, rather than abolitionist perspective.