Yes, voluptuous... fits the Delacroix painting. Now we just need someone to analyse differences & similarities between erotic fiction in the 1001 Nights, and fantasies about 'the Orient'...

Masrur shows up a lot, following Harun al-Rashid around and executing (or almost executing) those who step on the caliph's venerable toes. As the soused poet Abu Nuwas with his cheeky comments.

Richard Burton was not very shy. For 'The Barber's Tale of his Second Brother' he wrote this footnote: 'Then she drank a cup of wine and my brother (still standing) said to her "Health," and bowed to her. She handed him another cup and he drank it off, when she slapped him hard on the nape of his neck.' [This was the beginning of horseplay which often ends in a bastinado.]

Many of the erotic allusions in the 1001 Nights are hidden in poems. Bewildered readers at times need to refer to endnotes to find out which parts of each other's bodies the characters are praising! I have a translation into German by Enno Littmann. It is unabridged, but Littmann was coy about sexual content and wrote comments like 'We do not need to delve into further possible meanings of these verses'. Cute, huh.

'Arabian Nights' is somewhat misleading. The stories in the 1001 Nights originate from various different regions such as India, Persia, Mesopotamia, Syria, the Arabian peninsula and Egypt.