The bedtrick
Subtitle: tales of sex and masquerade
By: Wendy Doniger.
Series: Worlds of desire
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 598
Subjects: Sex -- Mythology -- Comparative studies; Deception
Genres: Comparative studies.
Description: "The Bedtrick brings together hundreds of stories from all over the world, from the earliest recorded Hindu and Hebrew texts to the latest item in the Weekly World News, to show the hilariously convoluted sexual scrapes that people manage to get themselves into and out of. Here you will find wives who accidentally commit adultery with their own husbands. You will read Lincoln's truly terrible poem about a bedtrick.

And you will learn that President Clinton was not the first man to be identified by an idiosyncratic organ."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 535-576) and index.