In one scene, a wife waits reluctantly for her marriage to be consummated, but it never is.

In one scene, a wife tells her husband a story while in a Roman-style bathhouse. They are beneath water unclothed, but no nudity is shown.

Scheherazade often wears clothes that shows here cleavage.

A woman dances seductively.

In a nightmare sequence, a woman tells a man that a demon is her husband and that he must "make love to her" while her husband sleeps. This never happens.

Multiple stabbings throughout.

Various fistfights, swordfights, and army warfare.

A man is strangling a woman when he wakes up (realizing it was a nightmare).

May or may not be considered profanity: a man says, "May he rot in h---!" and at another time, "Women are born to h---."

Two different people say, "D--- you."

The sultan smokes a hookah.