Orientalism

Though this title may make many an aspiring writer think it to be instructional for forbidding the writing of on the nose dialogue, The Book of Exposition is far from the case. The Kitab al-Izah Fi'ilm al-Kikah b-it-Tatam w-al-Kamal or The Book of Exposition, is a collection of 15 th century Arabic erotica. It’ a compilation of medieval short stories and colonial critiques of erotica throughout the Near East and what was initially considered the orient. Its intrigue was fueled by the desire to explore how other cultures wrote about the lustful nature of the non-European world, especially in its first release sometime in the 1880s. During this time in 19 th century England, sex was a taboo subject. Yet