The Erotikon by Augustin Cabanès
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The Erotikon by Augustin Cabanès, published in 1933. A curious and scholarly exploration of erotic customs and rites across history, with particular attention to ancient and pagan practices surrounding sexuality, fertility, and ritual symbolism. Cabanès, a French physician and historian of medicine, draws upon classical texts, historical accounts, and anthropological sources to examine unusual ceremonies, sacred rites, and cultural traditions in which sexuality played a ceremonial or mystical role. The work discusses themes connected with fertility cults, temple rites, sacred prostitution, and other practices associated with ancient pagan traditions, placing them within the broader historical study of erotic life and ritual. Hardcover with light shelfwear.
