The East, the West, and sex : a history of erotic encounters / Richard Bernstein.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

325 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bohemians at home and abroad -- The whole world as the white man's brothel -- Yangsook -- That cad Ludovico -- "Just a page in the book of your life" -- The harem in the mind of the west -- The fantasy comes true -- The eternal dream of Cleopatra -- Enlightenment from India -- Colonialism and sex -- A secret life in Algiers and Paris -- The Malacca blues -- The eastern paradox -- What happened to the harem? -- The inescapable courtesy of Japan -- The butterfly complex -- "I souvenir : you boom-boom" -- A room of her own -- Thinking of nana, or noi, or am -- The yearning of the wanderer's heart -- Judgments.