` October 2013 (UTC)  ::This is only a brief synopsis, there is certainly a great deal of detail we leave out - among other reasons because the original has some pretty ``rough`` passages. As someone once said - ``Wikipedia is uncensored but not gratuitous``. The King is shocked by his sister-in-law's blatant adultery (the original goes into great detail) - and is then saddened by the discovery that his own wife is just as bad (again the original is VERY graphic). The arrant wives are (naturally) both executed on the spot (more graphic detail - swords cleaving both wife and ``lover`` in a single blow while they are still at it etc.) - but the two kings are both so shamed and grief-stricken they go on a kind of retreat together to recover - it is here they meet the sleeping Ifrit (or Djinni?) and are propositioned by his human concubine - the deal is basically ``service me now or I will awaken my husband and accuse you of attempting to rape me``. The job done, she takes their rings - and shows them her large collection - all taken from other men she has had in similar circumstances. If even the Ifrit cannot protect his honour... and so on. ::I think on the whole that - given that we don't have ``room`` for a full retelling of the story, and MUST omit some detail - the current synopsis is a pretty fair one, but I am by no means against someone, working from the original or an unexpurgated edition of a ``real`` translation (say Burton) rewriting this to fit the original more closely. This particular synopsis is the one that was here when I first saw the article - and I have in fact often wondered if we might Bowdlerise a little less severely. The point is that we need a synopsis here, not a full blood-and-gore retelling!   03:37, 7`