The eroticized harem fantasy predates Montesquieu
Evidence
- On Western fantasies, see Ali Behdad’s article, “The Eroticized Orient: Images of the Harem in Montesquieu and his Precursors,” Stanford French Review 13, no. 2–3 (1989): 109–126. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 1180
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: European portrayals of the harem projected fantasy rather than observed reality — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 306; Lacan’s insight that phallic desire is masturbatory predates pop culture’s artificial-partner stories — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1035