Pornosophie, Erotologie & Aphrodisiaka

Feminists and pro-feminists seem to be falling over each other to condemn this barbaric tradition.

The offensive practice consists of a woman stripping naked, wrapping herself in a blanket and sitting on top of a burning hole in the ground to smoke her pussy-skin to silky perfection. She straddles the perfumed embers for 15 minutes to an hour. Taali tree wood [Erythrophleum suaveolens, in Europe also known as Missanda] is similar to rosewood or mahagony, and is home in tropical Africa. It’s colour ranges from a beautiful orange-brown to a darker sensuous reddish brown. It’s grain varies from fine lines to wider dark and light streaks. It’s smell is dark and sensual, and Taali is used in many perfumes and lotions. Because of it’s connection with the pussy-sauna, the scent is very appealing to men and gives high sex-appeal to the woman who uses it (or a bad reputation )

The treatment is called »dukhan« – an Arabic word, as in:

دخان dukhan: smoke, fume, vapor
دخن dahan: to be smokey; to taste or smell of smoke
دخنة dukhna: a kind of incence (Calamus aromaticus)
Surat Ad-Dukhan (Arabic: سورة الدخان ) (Smoke) is the 44th sura of the Qur’an (which doesn’t have anything further to do with the beauty-treatment, except maybe for the mention of Houris).

In Sudan, it is whispered that far more than smoothing the skin, the slow burning “dukhan” practice tightens a woman’s vagina, driving her man wild. The only reason why a woman sits for hours over burning wood, it is insinuated in Western urban centres, is for her man’s intimate sexual pleasure. Well, duh! What a crime.

For those who are quick to condemn this traditional beauty treatment: it seems to me that it is about as painful and/or boring as sauna treatments, meditation or aromatherapies, and not more silly than obsessive fitness training or hour-long beauty treatments. It’s more like a do-it-yourself Luxury-Spa-Aromatherapy-&-Sauna-Treatment, than the umptieth female-degrading tribal usance.

I’ve tried to come up with my own version – holes in the ground and fires in my city-center-flat not being an option. Place two towels for your knees on the floor, and a bowl with steaming water and sandelwood-(or rosewood)-aromatherapy-oil in between them. Put a towel or mat in front of this construction. Now we will execute a modified Balasana Posture: place your knees on the towels, legs well spread, pussy over the bowl, high up enough not to get yourself burned. Bend your torso forward, rest your head in your hands and you can move your hips up and down to get hotter or cooler. Not an entirely comfortable position, and I also suspect the dry smoke of Taali wood feels more pleasurable than the humid vapours. Any suggestions to improve welcome! I would especially like to find a way where I can read a book while getting silky-skinned.

Sweet from the outside – sweet from the inside:
check out the Hot Chocolate Love Potion by Innanja – it will make your juices taste sweeter, and give your appetite a totally aphrodisiac boost.

Negative voices: Rantings of a Sandmonkey
Original story: AFP: ‘Light my fire’: Sudan’s sex and beauty secret