Ixamyakxim: I once read a book in an English (well, Medieval - I think? I don't remember) Lit class with the title "Of Good and Ill Repute" ... not nearly as raucous as this.
Try reading some Thomas Middleton. He was a contemporary of Shakespeare (so early modern, not medieval). That man has a really really dirty mind. Or Chaucer. He's not very subtle either, although some of that tends to be lost on us as the meanings of words have changed. :P
ElTerprise: Well in that case it's understandable :P
One has to wonder what drugs those authors took :)
This particular author pretended to know all about the middle east and wrote an entire book on it. In fact, he had never been there and as such half of the things in the book were stolen from other people and the rest was random stuff he made up. He passed it all off as fact. :P