"The Book of Songs of Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (AD 897-971) is an extensive collection of text from pre-Islam Mecca, Medina, Damascus and Baghdad. This translation presents love stories and poems, anecdotes, satires, erotic encounters, bathroom humor anddescriptions of genitalia, sex toys and sex positions, along with stories praising and criticizing both homosexuality and heterosexuality"--