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Illuminating the Difference: Black, White, and Brown Women

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Illuminating the Difference is about female beauty and male desire. Drawing upon traditional Afro-Arab sources dating back to the ninth cnetury, the book explores the aesthetic qualities that men desire in women.

The book celebrates the diversity of beautiful women and explores why men desire women of particular skin colours and ethnic backgrounds, and discusses the historic reasons why men have generally preferred fair skinned women.

The author also discusses what matters most to a man in terms of attractiveness; a woman’s face or body, why do men desire multiple women and includes a number of countries with the most beautiful women in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

118 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2015

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Habeeb Akande

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Habeeb Akande is a British-Nigerian sex expert, historian and erotologist. He is a bestselling author of seven published books on sexual pleasure and African history.

His main research interest include erotology. and female pleasure in Islam and African cultures. As a public speaker, sexologist, and cross-cultural sex educator, Habeeb carries out workshops on the clitoris, kunyaza, and female ejaculation at international conferences and leading universities. He featured in the BBC documentary, The Orgasm Gap (2020), which explored teaching female pleasure in Rwanda and the UK.

BBC described him as the "man who is finding ways to close the gender pleasure gap outside of the classroom."

He is also a chartered accountant by profession and former student of Islamic law at al-Azhar University in Egypt.

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