Fifteen erotic legends from Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia are presented in this collection. On a visit to the men's ceremonial storytelling session on the island of Faraulip, Hambruch took notes on the eight legends from Micronesia and then reconstructed the texts. The five Melanesian legends he collected from soldiers on a ship bound for Ponape. The three legends from Polynesia seem to have been taken from other German or English collections. Other legends deal with true and false wives, incest between brother and sister, and an old man's search for love, and the adventures of a man in the land of women.
Numerous lithographs add to the book's appeal as a regional collection.