A
book accredited to
Li Yu, though he denies writing it. Written in the
Ming Dynasty of
China, it was banned for a long time because it was so
sexually explicit. The original published date was 1634 to be exact.
Brief Synopsis:
The
main character is a
scholar named
Before Midnight Scholar (literal translation of his name, word by word). The book begins with him being extremely
horny and through many ways, finally procures a beautiful
wife. She is
sexually cold, until he finally ignites her sexual fire with some good ole
pornography.
One day, while comparing his schlong with some other guy's schlong, finds out that his
penis isn't very
well endowed. He finds a guy to perform
surgery on his penis, adding in strips of erect
dog penis, and ended up with a well-endowed, functional
penis, but he can no longer have children.
He leaves home without a word to his
wife in search of other
women to test his new and improved schlong on, and many chapters of
sexual debauchery go by. In the mean time, his wife is sitting at home, after he lit her sexual desire. She starts to lust after her
maid's new
husband who also happens to be
well endowed. They
elope, and he sells her to a
whore house. She makes a name for herself as a
prostitute.
Before Midnight Scholar's friends hear about her, go to her whore house and get laid by Before Midnight Scholar's wife. They rant and rave to Before Midnight Scholar about this wonderful new
hooker, prompting him to go in search of this talented new
prostitute who is in fact, his wife.
When he gets to the
whore house, she hides in her room because she realizes that it's her husband that's come to
whore her. When Before Midnight Scholar finally gets to her room, she has
hung herself and is
dead. The whore house
madam tries to make him pay for killing her and all her other
patrons want to
kill him because they liked her so much. He tries to explain that he's her
husband and no one would believe him. Who would put his
beautiful wife in a
whore house and then pay to have
sex with her?
He becomes a
monk, kneeling down before the woven
prayer mat of the
Buddhists after meeting the guy that performed
penile surgery on him again. He renounces the prayer mat of flesh he has been kneeling to for the entire book and becomes a
spiritual scholar.