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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 (of 10)

Note 234 — THE MAN’S DISPUTE WITH THE LEARNED WOMAN CONCERNING THE RELATIVE EXCELLENCE OF MALE AND FEMALE.

Richard Francis Burton translation

The secondary meaning is “Fá’il” = the active sodomite and Mafa’úl = the passive, a catamite: the former is not an insulting word, the latter is a most injurious expression. “Novimus et qui te!”

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