Sex manual banned for nearly 250 years due to risqué content unearthed

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A 'sex manual' banned for nearly 250 years because of its risqué advice and references to bestiality has been unearthed. Titled 'Aristotle's Masterpiece Completed In Two Parts, The First Containing the Secrets of Generation', the book was initially published in 1720 but was banned until the 1960s.The Georgian-era illustrated book included depictions of creatures, such as unicorns, which were said to be born from 'women's unnatural lying with beasts'.

Other advice states that things imagined during sex could affect what a child looked like once born.According to the Mirror, women are encouraged to 'look earnestly' at their husbands so their children will resemble them, rather than risk the children being born with 'great blubber-lips' if their minds wander.

Diet and astrology are also analysed to help determine if a couple will have a boy or girl.Expected to fetch £120 at Hansons Auctioneers in Derbyshire in March, the book states: "Without doubt, the uniting of hearts in holy wedlock is of all conditions the happiest, for then a man has a second self to whom he can unravel his thoughts as well as a sweet companion in his labour'.It also offers, 'A Word of Advice to both Sexes in the Act of Copulation': "I do advise, before they begin their conjugal embraces to invigorate their mutual desires and make their flames burn with a fiercer ardour by those endearing ways that love can better teach than I can write.

And when they have done what nature can require, a man must have a care he does not part too soon from the embraces of his wife."Jim Spencer, books and manuscripts valuer at Hansons Auctioneers in Etwall, Derbyshire, said: "The first edition of this book was published in 1684 and it was as good as banned until the