Sexual invective before the time of Jarir and al-Farazdaq is not very common, however. 32 The rise of sexual invective in poetry coincides with poetry becom- ing a form of public amusement. We could almost say that sexual invective came into being with Islam and the founding of urban centres such as Basra and Kufa, where the flytings found a wide audience.
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