Do you like little boys? I know it sounds offensive but besides wine, that's what Abu Nuwas wrote about. Possibly the first out of the closet homosexual/pedophile in classic poetry. Greatly revered by homosexuals the world over. Perhaps now you know why his books got burned. He's all over the Alf Layla wa Layla, particularly in the story of the three women, the three qalandars and the three wise men of Baghdad. Notably that's the story that is usually omitted first from any editions you may find here because of lurid sexual acts. You want a good drunkard poet? Read Khayyam. At least he wasn't a perv. But it is indicative of the reversal in Arab culture, what was allowed 600 years ago will get you hanged today. Or maybe it was never allowed in some parts and then that view spread across the muslim world. Either way it's for the muslims to analyze and decide, their lands, their laws, up to them to say what's right and what's not.
Do you like little boys? I know it sounds offensive but besides wine, that's what Abu Nuwas wrote about. Possibly the first out of the closet homosexual/pedophile in classic poetry. Greatly revered by homosexuals the world over. Perhaps now you know why his books got burned. He's all over the Alf Layla wa Layla, particularly in the story of the three women, the three qalandars and the three wise men of Baghdad. Notably that's the story that is usually omitted first from any editions you may find here because of lurid sexual acts. You want a good drunkard poet? Read Khayyam. At least he wasn't a perv. But it is indicative of the reversal in Arab culture, what was allowed 600 years ago will get you hanged today. Or maybe it was never allowed in some parts and then that view spread across the muslim world. Either way it's for the muslims to analyze and decide, their lands, their laws, up to them to say what's right and what's not.