This is probably not a book which one would lightly give to one’s mother or indeed to one’s mother-in-law. The raunchy dust jacket (shades of Hogarth) and a blurb which partly reads: “From debauched clerics and hog-sodomising Pilgrims to sexually fluid cannibals and homosexual samurai, Licentious Worlds takes history where it has never been before” might encourage squeamish readers to look elsewhere.

中文翻译：

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放荡世界：全球帝国中的性与剥削

这可能不是一本可以轻易送给母亲或岳母的书。粗俗的防尘夹克（霍加斯的阴影）和一段宣传语，其中部分内容是：“从放荡的牧师和鸡奸的朝圣者到性爱流动的食人者和同性恋武士，放荡的世界记录了前所未有的历史”可能会鼓励娇气的读者看别处。