Jayyusi admits that the satire is often full of comical imagery, but condemns Umayyad satire about women as being generally 'excessively gross and obscene', too grotesque and lacking humour: 'they cross the frontiers of satire into pornographic fantasies that arrive at absurdity' . 6 Apparently condemning both pornography and absurdity, she does not mention that these two things were precisely what the poet intended.
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