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[crapulous]

There is nothing more harmful for the older man than to have a skilful cook and a beautiful young servant girl since he will take an excess of food and become ill, and will engage in sexual intercourse to excess and become senile.
The repose of the body is in minimum food, and the repose of the soul is in having few sins, the repose of the heart is in having few concerns, and the repose of the tongue is in keeping speech to a minimum.

Thābit ibn Qurrah (836-901).

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

Probably, maybe. At least about food, I'm looking into planning more control. An alternative would be ozempic or trulicity.

[crapulous]

I think those guys were very low on moderation. Same with ozempic and trulicity.

Type 2 diabetes is bad. (((

[eta_ta]

he should've taken his own advice and kept his [written] speech to a min.
preferably to total silence.

[crapulous]

Looks like much of the Muslim medical history revolve around some relationship of a pleasure slave-girl (or boy) and an old goat. This also applies to the history of the Eastern churches.

Another good one.
Eutychius, Patriarch of Alexandria:
During the days of Hārūn al-Rashīd, the governor of Egypt sent a very beautiful concubine from the Copts of Lower Egypt to the caliph, who grew to love her very much. One day, she became very ill. The physicians treated her, but were unable to cure her. They said to Hārūn al-Rashīd, ‘Have your governor in Egypt, send you one of the physicians of Egypt since they know more about how to treat an Egyptian slave-girl than the physicians of Iraq.’
So the caliph ordered the governor to choose one of the most skilled physicians of Egypt. The governor called upon Politianus, told him of the caliph’s love for the girl and her illness, and conducted him to Hārūn al-Rashīd. Politianus carried with him some of the coarse cake and small salted fish of Egypt, and when he arrived in Baghdad and attended to the slave-girl, he gave her the cake and small salted fish to eat, whereupon she was cured of her illness.
From that time on, the coarse cake and small salted fish were imported from Egypt to the imperial storehouses in Baghdad. Hārūn al-Rashīd rewarded Politianus with ample wealth and issued a decree ordering that every church that had been taken from the Melkites by the Jacobites should revert back into the possession of the Melkites. Politianus returned to Egypt and reclaimed many churches from the Jacobites.

[eta_ta]

...or relationship with a pleasure goat (if n/a, camel)

[crapulous]

Abū l-Hakam (andalusian shaykh, XII c.) "The Domestic Scandal", a fragment:
Don’t mind their winks whenever any
Should leave their place ‘to spend a penny’:
It’s slaves and slave-girls they will seek,
To pinch a tit or bite a cheek.
One’s hospitality’s abused
Yet worse: one’s wife is being seduced,
One’s sister, daughter, or one’s son
(Especially a pretty one).
In this one ought to be forgiving,
For, after all, your friends are living;
A man is flesh and blood and bone;
He is no statue or a stone.

[eta_ta]

I don't think you caught my drift

[crapulous]

Bestiality, I get it.

https://crapulous.dreamwidth.org/tag/olearius

There are some ridiculous quotes of Adam Olearius, grumpy german diplomat who traveled to Muscovy and Persia in XVII c.

He wrote a lot about "raunchy" muslim customs and habits we all know and love (but for some reason no bestiality).

Actually he detests muscovites more, because persians at least had scholars and respect to personal hygiene.