The Book of Elephantis

The Ancient Greek’s version of the Kama Sutra was a notorious sex manual

Peter Preskar
Short History
Published in
2 min readFeb 15, 2021

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Greek mosaic from the Sanctuary of Aphrodite (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Elephantis was a Greek poetess and physician who lived in the first century BC. She wrote a licentious sex manual called the Book of Elephantis—a Greek Kama Sutra. Unfortunately, her works didn’t survive to the present day.

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