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-       being, I. an enquiry into the true nature of Onan’s sin. II. of
-       the modern Onanists. III. of self-pollution, its causes, and
-       consequences; with three extraordinary cases, of two young
-       gentlemen and a lady, who were very much addicted to this crime.
-       IV. of nocturnal-pollutions natural and forc’d. V. the great
-       sin of self-pollution, with the judgment of the most eminent
-       divines upon this subject. VI. a dissertation concerning
-       generation, with a curious description of the parts, and of their
-       proper functions, &c. according to the latest, and most
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-ONANISM
-DISPLAY’D:
-BEING,
-I. An Enquiry into the true Nature of ONAN’S SIN.
-II. Of the Modern _Onanists_.
-III. Of _Self-Pollution_, its Causes, and Consequences; with three
-extraordinary Cases, of two Young Gentlemen and a Lady, who were very
-much Addicted to this Crime.
-IV. Of _Nocturnal-Pollutions_ Natural and Forc’d.
-V. The Great Sin of _Self-Pollution_, with the Judgment of the most
-Eminent Divines upon this Subject.
-VI. A Dissertation concerning _Generation_, with a curious Description
-of the Parts, and of their proper Functions, _&c._ according to the
-latest, and most approv’d Anatomical Discoveries.
-
-
-                Made _English_ from the _Paris_ Edition.
-
-                          THE SECOND EDITION.
-
-                              __LONDON__:
-
-  Printed for E. CURLL, over against St. _Dunstan_’s Church in
-    _Fleet-street_. MDCCXIX. (Price 1 _s._ 6 _d._)
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration]
-
-                                PREFACE.
-
-
-_The Reader will immediately be sensible, that I have been led into the
-first part of this Treatise upon tracing the Impositions and
-Inconsistencies of the Author of a Pamphlet Entitled _Onania_; and for
-the latter part it may be easily concluded to proceed from no other
-Motive, but the Dictates of Nature._
-
-_It was impossible for an Author of any Spirit, after a particular
-description of the unnatural use of the Parts, that he could finish his
-Labours without thoroughly examining their admiral Structure: They being
-no less curious than delightful to a Youthful Swain, that’s fir’d with
-Imagination._
-
-_The infinite number of fine Vessels are pleasing in Representation, as
-well as otherways Ravishing, and the Nerves and Arteries are equally
-beautiful, as they are transporting. The great and exquisite sense of
-the Parts of _Generation_, give an Enjoyment transcending all others;
-and the Wisdom of our Creator, for the support of the World, cannot be
-too sufficiently admir’d, in that Man is propagated by an excess of
-Pleasure._
-
-_The following Treatise, I have by no means compos’d to give a loose to
-Debauchery. I have only persu’d the common Rules of Anatomy in this way
-of Writing, and interspers’d a great variety of curious Observations and
-natural Consequences as yet unobserv’d, and I was naturally induc’d to
-it more for the Information of Mankind in general, than for the Sons of
-_Æsculapius_ in particular. The Gentleman of all Ranks not
-superannuated, may find some Pleasure in perusing it, and the fair Sex
-will meet with such ample Instructions, as not to fail in the choice of
-an agreeable Person, for the amorous Combat._
-
-_For my _Dissertation_ upon the _Generation_ of _Man_, I am chiefly
-oblig’d to _Messieurs Lamy_, and _Dionis_,[1] those two excellent
-Anatomists; and if, in some parts of my Performance, I seem more
-Ludicrous than any Author that has hitherto writ on the Subject; you’ll
-find on due consideration, ’tis owing to a more exact Enquiry; and
-Curiosity is not easily satisfied in the depth of the secrets of Nature.
-And I hope what I have mention’d from a Learned _Casuist_,[2] will be a
-sufficient Antidote against the unlawful use of those curious Parts I
-have so particularly described; as an Addition to which I farther
-recommend a small Treatise (not long since publish’d,) Entitled,
-__ESSAYS__ relating to the _Conduct of Life_, which contain sufficient
-and easy Instructions for a regular _OEconomy_, not only where the
-Passions are prevalent, but in all the Vicissitudes incident to Human
-Nature._
-
-Footnote 1:
-
-  Dissertation sur la Generation de L’Homme. Par _Monsieur Dionis, Paris
-  1697_.
-
-Footnote 2:
-
-  Traite de l’Impuritie, par _Monsieur Ostervald_.
-
-_In the Writing of this small Work I carelesly omitted a material
-scrutiny of a Paragraph in _Onania; Page 16_. says this Author, ‘some
-Women are with held from being Prostitutes by their covetousness only:
-Others for nothing else, but the fear of Diseases, or the having of
-Children. Lascivious Widows, who understand the World have reason to
-scruple second Marriages on many accounts; some love their Liberty;
-others their Money; and if they value their Reputation, they’ll not dare
-to venture on unlawful Embraces; whereas in Self-pollution, neither the
-Cautious, nor the Covetous imagine that they have any thing to fear.” I
-take it that this very plainly encourages the Sin of Self-pollution, if
-I may be allow’d to deduce the Consequences of the latter from the
-former; for he first says rightly, that unlawful Embraces are injurious
-to Reputations; but then insinuates that Self-pollution may be practis’d
-without any Apprehensions. This and many other parts of his Treatise,
-demonstrate his View to be the sale of his Medicines, though with a
-great deal of Cant he pretends the contrary, besides the very tacking of
-his Apothecary’s-shop, to his stupid Performance, without any farther
-considerations sufficiently shews his real Intentions. And I am so far
-from imitating this ignorant _Empirick_, that the only Remedy I
-prescribe, is that Infallible _Specifick_, in every ones power,
-__CHASTITY__._
-
-[Illustration]
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-
-
-[Illustration]
-
-                                ONANISM
-                               DISPLAY’D.
-
-
-
-
-                            _INTRODUCTION._
-
-
-The Author of a late Pamphlet entitled _ONANIA_ has by a Bundle of
-Theological Phrases, Scripture Quotations, and an affected Simplicity,
-attempted to possess the World with an Opinion, that his Designs in
-publishing that Treatise, were meerly with spiritual Views, and out of a
-tender regard to the preservation of the Healths and Constitutions of
-the degenerate part of Mankind, without any the least Mercenary
-Expectations; and since it may possibly bear this Construction with
-Persons carelesly perusing his Performance, and the ignorant Multitude:
-I shall make it my Business to set forth the Absurdity, inconsistency,
-and imposture of this supercilious Scribler in every part; to prove that
-his Treatise tends to the encouragement of Lewdness and Debauchery; that
-his own Medicines promote the very Sin, he, for Interest sake, takes
-upon him to Discountenance; and to demonstrate, that he is really
-ignorant of what was the Crime of _ONAN_. But I shall premise that my
-Scheme is no ways calculated to propagate any manner of Uncleanness, but
-on the contrary to discourage the practice of self-pollution, by
-illustrating the Sin more particularly; and enumerating more
-extraordinary Instances than hitherto any Author has done on the
-Subject.
-
-I agree with this Author in the Opinion of the Divine he has quoted,
-that Self-pollution is a Crime in it self, monstrous and unnatural; its
-Practice filthy and odious, its Guilt crying, and its Consequences
-ruinous: It destroys conjugal Affection, perverts natural Inclination,
-and tends to extinguish the hopes of Posterity; but I take leave to
-observe that the Author of _ONANIA_ is egregiously mistaken in fixing
-this Crime upon _ONAN_, as I shall incontestably prove when I have gone
-thro’ my Examination of his trifling Performance, which I purpose to do
-with all the exactness imaginable.
-
-And first, in Page 14. After setting forth Ignorance to be the first
-cause of Self-pollution, this Author goes on and tells you, that the
-second is the secrecy with which Self-pollution may be committed: All
-other Actions of uncleanness (says he) must have a Witness, this needs
-none. Some lustful Women of sense, have made all the outward shew of
-Virtue and Morality that can be requir’d; they have had prudence enough,
-in the midst of strong Desires, to refuse disadvantageous Matches, and
-yet have abandon’d themselves to this Vice, when at the same time they
-would rather have died than betray’d a weakness to any Man living, as
-afterwards, becoming Penitents, they have confessed themselves. And
-again some young Men of vicious Inclinations, have either naturally, or
-for want of a liberal Education been shame-fac’d to excess; they have
-not dar’d to look upon a Woman, and their Bashfulness has secur’d them
-from every act of Impurity but this. From all which it is evident that
-the secrecy of this Sin, has betray’d many into it, whom hardly any
-thing else would have tempted.
-
-In answer to this, tho’ it must be confess’d that secrecy in some
-measure promotes this Vice, yet Ignorance and the want of a liberal
-Education can in no respect be constru’d to have an equal Effect: An
-ignorant Person may be rationally presum’d to be less influenc’d by
-impure Imaginations, than a Person of a tolerable share of Sense; his
-Ignorance may be so extensive, as to cloud all manner of Enjoyments, and
-allow him no Thoughts of pursuing imaginary pleasures; whilst the Man of
-sense is perpetually devising new Diversions, and proportions his
-Enjoyment to the extent of his Capacity; he vigorously pursues the
-Tracts of Lewdness and Debauchery, and is restless and uneasy, until he
-has acted in all Scenes, and gone thro’ the utmost variety of brutal
-Enjoyments; this I take to be highly conspicuous in the Rakes of the
-Town, who are frequently Persons of sprightly Wit, and endu’d with no
-small share of substantial Sense.
-
-And as for the want of a liberal Education, I cannot easily guess at the
-meaning of the Author, unless it be the want of being train’d up in the
-Hundreds of _Drury_, it being very certain that in a Scholastick
-Education, the perusal of ludicrous Authors, which all Youths of Spirit
-are fond of making choice of for their Studies, excites them to
-uncleanness infinitely beyond Ignorance; and that the want of Education
-should occasion such an invincible Bashfulness, as to deter a Person
-from looking on a Woman, is such an imposition upon the illiterate part
-of Mankind, which make up at least three Parts in four of the Creation,
-that nothing can be like it, when we consider that the Enjoyment of a
-Woman is so natural, that no bounds of Shame will confine it, and that
-Persons in all other Respects modest, have a strong propensity to
-copulation, and cannot conquer this passion, like others more visible to
-the World, by Shame or any other means.
-
-Shame I take to be more a defect in Nature, and want of Resolution to
-act in Publick, than to discourage the private Amours of Youth, which by
-a due management may be easily carried on with sufficient secrecy: And
-we oftentimes find a bashful Person more inclinable to Vice than the Man
-of assurance, tho’ he supports the Character with more Hipocrisy; his
-Intrigues are carried on with an entire secrecy, and he can enter upon
-his Lewdness with an air of Gravity and Innocence, when the Sinner of
-Resolution as frankly owns his Experience, as he commits the Crime. But
-to go on with this Author, in page 17. He says, it is the general
-Opinion, that the shameless are the worst of People, yet shame when ill
-plac’d, has often wrought worse Effects, than the reverse alone has been
-able to produce. When a Bastard Infant is found Dead, and the Mother,
-lately deliver’d without Witness, is not able to prove either that she
-had made Provision for it, or during her pregnancy imparted the secret
-to another, besides the Father, our _English_ Law, without any other
-Evidence, presumes the Woman to have murder’d the Child. From whence it
-is evident the Legislators must have suppos’d that some Women may have
-cruelty enough to commit the most unnatural Murder of all, and at the
-same time want Courage to bear shame.
-
-This penetrating Author does not consider, that ’tis not so much the
-want of Courage to bear a present shame, as to prevent a future expence
-in the maintaining and breeding up a Child, which most commonly
-occasions these unnatural Murders; and where a Crime of this Nature can
-be perpetrated with secrecy, so that the guilty Persons may come off
-with impunity, I take it that in all Cases the incumbrance is more
-consider’d than the shame.
-
-I am not of his Opinion in Page 18. that Women are equally immodest with
-Men, and that Custom and Education only prevents their shewing it. For
-in the Infancy of Children, before the force of Education can possibly
-take place, or sense prevail, as a Guide to their Actions, we frequently
-find an abounding Modesty in the Female, and a large share of Boldness
-in the Male, produc’d from the same Loins, and this I have observ’d is
-generally the Case, which can proceed from nothing but Nature.
-
-And in Page 19. says this Author, if Children were strictly forbid never
-to touch their Eyes or Nose, but with their Handkerchiefs, and that only
-upon very urgent Necessities; if likewise they saw every Body comply
-with this Custom, and it was counted abominable to touch them with their
-naked Hands, I can’t see why this might not be as shocking to them when
-grown up, as now the most guilty Denudations are to well bred People.
-Now this curious Observation upon the efficacy of Custom being
-introduc’d in a Paragraph treating of Modesty and Chastity, I appeal to
-all Persons of any sense or discernment, whether it does not imply, that
-all Modesty and Virtue is establish’d only by Custom, and whether it
-does not entirely destroy the notion of an innate Principle. This
-concludes his first Chapter, and I take it to be very evident, that
-under a Cloak of Divinity, this Author slily propagates Doctrines fatal
-to Religion, and highly reflecting on the Reputations of the Virtuous.
-
-Chap. II. Page 25. In Women, he says, Self-pollution, if frequently
-practis’d, relaxes and spoils the retentive Faculty, occasions the
-_Fluor Albus_, an obnoxious, as well as perplexing illness attending
-that Sex, which upon account of the Womb, may draw on a whole Legion of
-Diseases; among other disorders, it makes them look pale, and those who
-are not of a good Complexion, swarthy and hagged. It frequently is the
-cause of Hysterick Fits, and sometimes by draining away all the radical
-Moisture causes Consumptions. But what it more often produces than
-either, is Barrenness, a misfortune very afflictive to them, because
-seldom to be redress’d; He seems to make very little difference between
-the fatal Consequences of Self-pollution in either of the Sexes, when it
-must be allow’d to be great, on duly considering the situation of the
-parts; the Male can with abundantly more ease effect a titillation on
-his external Testicles, than the Female facilitate the least pleasure in
-her Womb; and as the difficulty is greater, it must deter a constant
-practice, and consequently not be attended with Symptoms, equally
-direful. And I doubt not, but this Author would much rather see a Legion
-of Gallants waiting upon a Female, than one single act of
-Self-pollution, his Interest being more nearly concern’d in the vending
-of his Venereal Medicines.
-
-Agreeable to this, in Page 46. Treating of Repentance, he goes on, it is
-not enough for Youth to renounce their Crime, without renouncing
-likewise all the approaches to it. All the several species of Impurity,
-and the defilements of either Body or Mind, all lewd Actions, wanton
-Glances, impure Thoughts and Desires, together with such familiarities
-as expose to Temptations, all obscene Discourse or Expressions, and
-which are contrary to Chastity. It is true this Renunciation may appear
-difficult at first, and will occasion no small trouble to those that
-have contracted a vicious Habit, of giving themselves up to all sorts of
-Passions: But People must couragiously resolve to overcome themselves,
-it being far better to deny themselves in those Things, and to cross
-their own Inclinations for a time, than by pursuing them to perish
-eternally. _It is profitable that one of _their_ Members should perish,
-and not that _their_ whole Body should be cast into Hell._ The tacking
-of this Quotation from Scripture, by a dispenser of Medicines,
-pretending only to cure Venereal Maladies, seems very plain and
-demonstrable to be done with a design of increasing Whoredom and
-Fornication, at the same time he pretends to lash the Crime of
-Self-pollution; what he can otherwise mean by the perishing of one
-_Member_, is to me a mystery; and in many other parts of his Treatise he
-slily insinuates Notions and Comparisons no way coherent, to promote his
-Profession of Quackism.
-
-In Page 54. After he has inserted a pretended Letter from a Young
-Gentleman in the Country, setting forth the dreadful Miseries he
-labour’d under thro’ a frequent practice of Self-pollution, _viz._
-repeating it eight Times an hour; our Author solemnly declares, that he
-concluded this Letter with requesting his Advice, and informing him that
-he never carnally knew any Person (I suppose meaning neither Man nor
-Woman) or defil’d himself otherwise, than by Self-pollution. Setting
-aside the very great suspicion of this, and the rest of the Letters in
-this Treatise being forg’d, there being no Names of the Writers, to whom
-directed, or any Dates to them, the Author Acts very inconsistently, in
-not setting forth the conclusion of the Letter relating to carnal
-knowledge in the Letter it self, but instead thereof, he imposes upon
-the World, his own Affirmation, as the only Authority. If he be himself
-the Author of those Letters, as I suppose he may, indeed it has equal
-sanction from his own Mouth deliver’d at another time, but if he be not
-the Inventer of those Bundles of Nonsense, certainly the Genuine Letter
-ought to be inserted verbatim to the end. And why he mentions that part
-of the Letter at all, unless it be with a secret Design of propagating
-other uncleanness more detestable as it brings a double Guilt, I cannot
-well understand, since he no where takes notice of the calamities
-attending Whoredom and Fornication, tho’ the Crimes are often repeated.
-
-Towards the Conclusion of this Treatise, in Page 74. The more easily to
-impose upon the publick, a solemn Declaration is made, that he neither,
-has, or ever design’d to have the least Interest or share in the
-Profits, that now are, or hereafter may accrue from the sale of the
-Medicines; this seems to be an Evasion equally contriv’d to any of the
-foregoing; is it not easy to imagine, that, (tho’ his Performance is
-compos’d of stupidity) he is not himself the Author, even of that? And
-that this is not his Declaration, but that of the Writer of his insipid
-Treatise; and whether this be not a natural Construction, I submit to
-the Determination of all impartial Readers. There are several other
-Fallacies and Impostures, which might be trac’d through his trifling
-Performance, but I shall content my self with the particulars I have
-already examin’d: And as in Page 63. He mentions the Advice of
-_Boccalini_, given as an Antidote against Whoredom, _viz._ that Persons
-that way inclin’d should carry about with them, a well drawn Picture, of
-the most perfect and faultless Beauty that ever appear’d in Flesh and
-Blood, pencil’d over again with rotten Teeth, blear Eyes, and Noseless;
-and that whenever Desires of the Flesh stir, they would take a sober
-View of it, and seriously consider what they are about to do, and the
-Consequences, which no doubt would damp their Inclinations. I shall
-insert some particulars of this nature, which will give a more lively
-Idea of the Folly and Madness, and more effectually deter a pursuit of
-carnal Pleasures from Sir _Roger L’Estrange_’s Translation of
-_QUEVEDO_’s Visions.
-
-
-In the fifth Vision of the World, a Dialogue is begun between a Young
-Libertine, and a grave Old Gentleman; ‘says the Libertine, there past by
-a Lady of Pleasure, of so excellent a Shape, and Garb, that it was
-impossible to see her without a Passion for her, and no less impossible
-to look upon any Thing else so long as she was to be seen: They that had
-seen her once, were to see her no more: for she turn’d her Face still to
-new Comers: Her Motion was graceful and free, one while she’d stare ye
-full in the Eyes, under colour of opening her Hood, to set it in better
-order: By and by she’d steal a look at ye with one Eye, and a side Face,
-from the corner of her Vizor; like a Witch that’s afraid to be known
-when she comes from a Catterwal; and then out comes the delicate Hand,
-and discovers the more delicious Neck and Breasts, to adjust the
-Handkerchief or the Scarf; or to remove some other grievance that made
-her Ladyship uneasy. Her Hair was most artificially dispos’d into
-careless Rings; and the best Red and White in Nature was in her Cheeks;
-if that of her Lips and Teeth did not exceed it. In a word, all she
-look’d upon were her own; the Old Man opposing this Romance; says the
-Young Gentleman, he must be either Blind or Barbarous that’s proof
-against the Charms of so divine a Beauty; nor would any but a Sot let
-slip the blessed opportunity, of so fair an Encounter; that he that has
-her, has all that’s lovely or desirable in Nature: What lightning does
-she carry in her Eyes! What Charms and Chains in her Looks and Motions,
-for the very Souls of her Beholders! Was ever any Thing so clear, as her
-Forehead? Or so black as her Eye-brows? One would swear that her
-Complection had taken a Tincture of Vermillion and Milk: And that Nature
-had brought her into the World with Pearl and Rubies in her Mouth, to
-speak all in little, she’s the Master-piece of the Creation, worthy of
-infinite praise, and equal to our largest Desires and Imaginations.
-
-‘Here the Old Gentleman interrupted the Young Libertine, and told him he
-was a Man of much Wonder and small Experience, and deliver’d over to the
-Spirit of Folly and Blindness. The Truth of it is, said he, that this
-prodigious Beauty of yours, hires all by the day; and if you did but see
-this Puppet taken to pieces, you would find her little else but Paint
-and Plaister. To begin her Anatomy at the head; you must know that the
-Hair she wears, is borrow’d of a Tire-Woman, for her own was blown off
-by an unlucky Wind from the coast of _Naples_; or if she has any left,
-she keeps it private, as a Memorial of her Antiquity; she is beholden to
-the Pencil for her Eye-brows and Complection: And upon the whole matter
-she’s but an old Picture refresht; all that you see of her that’s good,
-comes from distill’d Waters, Essences, Powders, and the like; and to see
-the washing of her Face would fright the Devil: She abounds in
-Pomanders, sweet Waters, Spanish Pockets, perfum’d Drawers; and all
-little enough to qualifie the poisonous Whiffs she sends from her Toes
-and Armpits, which would otherwise out stink Ten Thousand Pole-Cats: She
-cannot chuse but kiss well, for her Lips are perpetually bath’d in Oil
-and Grease; and he that embraces her, shall find the better half of her
-the Taylors, and only a stuffing of Cotton, and Canvas to supply the
-defects of her Body. What do you think of your ador’d Beauty now?’
-
-And in another place of the same Author, the following account is given
-of a Visit to ill-favour’d Women; ‘some had their Faces so pounc’d and
-speckled, as if they had been scarified, and newly past the cupping
-Glass; with a World of little Plaisters, long, round, square; and
-briefly cut out into such variety, that it would have posed a good
-Mathematician to have found out another Figure; and you would have
-sworn, that they had been either at Cats-play or Cuffs: Others were
-scraping their Faces with pieces of Glass; tearing up their Eye-brows by
-the Roots like mad; and some that had none to tear, were fetching out of
-their black Boxes, such as they could get or make: Others were powdering
-and curling the false Locks, or fastning their new Ivory Teeth in the
-place of their old Ebony ones: Some were chewing Limmon-peal or
-Cinnamon, to countenance a foul Breath; and raising themselves upon
-their Ciopines, that their View might be the fairer, and their fall the
-deeper: Others were quarrelling with their Looking-glasses, for shewing
-them such Hags countenances; and cursing the _State_ of _Venice_, for
-entertaining no better Workmen; some with their Hogs-grease and Pomatum,
-were sleeking and polishing their Faces; and indeed, their Fore-heads
-were bright and shining, though there were neither Suns nor Stars in
-that Firmament: And others were daubing one another, to take away the
-Heats and Buboes; so far does a Woman’s Wit and Invention carry her, to
-her own Destruction.’ And in another Vision lewd Women are justly
-call’d, _the Devil’s Factresses_.
-
-This is a small Digression from my Subject, but as I was naturally lead
-into it, by the Treatise I have been examining, and it may tend to the
-discouragement of unlawful Pleasures, I hope it is excuseable. I now
-proceed to shew that the Author is mistaken in the Sin of _ONAN_, and to
-demonstrate what was really his Crime.
-
-
-
-
-                               _CHAP._ I.
-         _Of_ _ONAN_’s _Crime; and the Sin of_ SELF-POLLUTION.
-
-
-The Text of Scripture runs thus. _And _Judah_ said unto __ONAN__, Go in
-unto thy Brother’s Wife, and Marry her, and raise up Seed to thy
-Brother. And __ONAN__ knew that the Seed should not be his; and it came
-to pass, when he went in unto his Brother’s Wife, that he spilled it on
-the Ground, lest that he should give Seed to his Brother._ 38. Chap.
-Genesis, Verses 8, 9, 10.
-
-Though some Authors seem to make _ONAN_’s chief Crime to be
-Self-pollution, yet the learned Bishop _Patrick_, in his Commentary upon
-the _38th Chapter _of_ Genesis_, is of a contrary Opinion, _viz._
-
-  ‘Verse 8. _Go in unto thy Brother’s Wife._ This was an ancient Custom
-  in force by the Law of _Moses_, which only exacted what had been
-  formerly practis’d, _viz._ that when a Man died without issue, his
-  next Brother should Marry his Wife. _Deut. 25. 5._
-
-  ‘_And raise up Seed to thy Brother_; is meant preserve thy Brother’s
-  Name and Family, by begetting a Child, which may be accounted his, and
-  inherit his Estate. For so the Law was, that the first Born of such a
-  Match, was not to be look’d upon, as a Child of him that begot him;
-  but as his Brother’s, who was the Mother’s first Husband; though all
-  the following Children were to be his own.
-
-  ‘Verse 9. _ONAN_ _knew that the Seed should not be accounted his in
-  the first Born, but his Brothers._ And least the Child should be born
-  in the Name of his Brother; v. 10. _The Thing which he did displeased
-  the Lord._ This made the Sin the more heinous, that he acted against
-  the divine Promise made to _Abraham_, concerning the multiplying of
-  his Seed.
-
-  ‘The contract of Marriage was so understood in those Days, that if the
-  Husband died without Issue, the Woman was oblig’d to Marry his next
-  Brother, and as long as any of his Brethren remain’d, they were bound
-  to Marry his Wife, and preserve their Brother’s Memory, or solemnly
-  renounce, to their very great Infamy. This was so well known, that no
-  new contract was enjoyn’d in such a Case; for the first Husband being
-  dead, she and the next Brother were Man and Wife, without any farther
-  Agreement or Ceremony, by Virtue of the Original Law.’
-
-The learned Prelate in this Comment, omits mentioning the spilling of
-the Seed, but it may be rationally presum’d he did it not so much out of
-a regard to Modesty, as its being a trifling part of the Charge against
-_ONAN_; since he determines _ONAN_’s great Crime to be his not complying
-with the Law of _Moses_, in the Marriage of his Brothers Wife; tho’ he
-adds, that his Sin was the more heinous for his acting contrary to the
-promise made to _Abraham_, in relation to the multiplying of his Seed.
-
-What provok’d _ONAN_ to the Breach of this Law, I take to be evident,
-was his not being allow’d the Reputation of begetting the first Child on
-his Brothers Wife, which in all Marriages is attended with more
-satisfaction, than any of the future Progeny.
-
-There might be other probable Reasons given for _ONAN_’s breaking this
-Law of _Moses_; as envy to the Memory of his deceas’d Brother, dislike
-or prejudice to his Wife, _&c._ But to Comment a little farther upon the
-38 _Chapter_ of _Genesis_, in respect to _ONAN_’s Crime, it may not be
-amiss to examine some preceding Verses.
-
-Verse. 2. _And_ Judah _saw there, a Daughter of a certain_ Cananite,
-_whose Name was_ Shuah; _and he took her, and went in unto her. And she
-conceiv’d, and bare a Son, and he call’d his Name_ Er. By this, and many
-other parts of the Scripture it is apparent, that the Words _going in_
-unto a Woman, were meant in those times actual Copulation, so that when
-_ONAN_ _went in_ unto his Brother’s Wife, it must be constru’d, that he
-began the pleasure of Matrimony, though, he did not perfect it by reason
-he spilt his Seed on the Ground; that is, he withdrew from his Brothers
-Wife, and did not consummate the Marriage; which displeas’d the Lord,
-wherefore he slew him.
-
-Agreeable to this in some measure, is the modern Custom amongst Persons
-of distinction in their amorous Intrigues; who after they are actually
-ingag’d in the pleasures of _Venus_, by a sudden ereption of the
-Privities, separate from the Female the instant they feel the
-Titillation in the extreme Parts, and before the _Emissio Seminis_; to
-prevent the effects of a teeming Womb, which would not only occasion a
-considerable expence, but expose the Female, and very much impair the
-Beauty of her Form. And of this nature, I take the Sin of _ONAN_ to be,
-in relation to his spilling his Seed on the Ground, though not committed
-with the same design.
-
-These particulars fully shew, that _ONAN_’s Sin was not Self-pollution,
-as laid down by the Author of _ONANIA_, and for that he had the
-Assistance of his Brother’s Wife. I come now to the Sin of
-Self-pollution, and begin with the Causes.
-
-I am by no means of the Author’s Opinion, that Self-pollution is
-entirely occasion’d by Ignorance, Secrecy, Shame, or other particular
-Causes mention’d in his Treatise, as I have already observ’d, with my
-Reasons confuting the same; to which I may add, this farther, that few,
-or no Persons can be ignorant, that Self-pollution is a Sin. I look upon
-it to be more a natural Distemper occasion’d by a vicious ferment of the
-Blood, than to proceed from any of the Causes set forth by the Author of
-Self-pollution, and that this may be agitated by lewd Company, Obscene
-Pictures, _&c._ It is impossible, that ignorance can increase this
-Crime, when it is esteem’d the Mother of Devotion, and in my Opinion,
-the firmest limits to Chastity. Without some experience, no considerable
-progress can be made, and ’tis the highest inconsistency to call an
-experienc’d Person ignorant.
-
-Other Causes of Self-pollution, I take it may be justly attributed to
-the very great hazards Young Gentlemen are constantly expos’d to with
-Women of the Town (not that I allow any unlawful desires) for tho’ the
-Crime of Self-pollution be in its nature heinous, and the Consequences
-are to be fear’d by all considerate Persons, yet the Sin doth not in any
-respect seem so dreadful to vigorous Youth, as that of Whoredom, and the
-Calamities attending, are generally more remote in prospect. A Clap or a
-Pox will immediately ensue in the most terrible manner (the Beauty of
-the Front, and the most valuable parts of the Body, being particularly
-in danger) in the case of Copulation with an unsound Woman, when the
-consequences of Self-pollution only steal on you by degrees, and will be
-a considerable space before the direful Effects shall be visible. This I
-take to be a principal Cause of Self-pollution, especially where Persons
-have suffer’d in their Intrigues with lewd Women; and what encreases it
-in this case, is the pernicious Salt of a transmissive Nature,
-oftentimes remaining in the center of the Blood, upon taking unbounded
-quantities of Mercurial Preparations; some Young Gentlemen have
-confess’d to me, that after the cure of the secret Disease by
-Quack-physicians, their Inclinations have encreas’d, with the number of
-their venerial Maladies, which can proceed from no other cause than a
-pollution of the Blood occasion’d by the Dregs of ill prepar’d
-Medicines.
-
-I have known two very remarkable Cases of this kind in the Country. One
-was a half witted young Fellow, being with artifice entic’d to the act
-of Fornication with an unclean Woman, who after a cure of the Disease he
-receiv’d by her, was so strangely addicted to Self-pollution, that at
-length there was far greater difficulty to preserve his impair’d
-Carcass, than in curing of his nauseous Distemper, notwithstanding, he
-had it with severity: He would sit down upon the Floor, and with Eyes
-lift up violate Nature in a seeming Transport, and oftentimes repeat
-this unnatural Sin, with an uncommon pleasure: At last he confess’d it,
-and on a private Examination declar’d, that he never had any inclination
-to Self-pollution, before he had receiv’d his venerial Injury, and
-largely taken of the Surgeons Preparations, tho’ this Woman was not the
-first that he had carnally known. The other Case within my knowledge,
-was, that of a rakish Young Gentleman, who having run through his
-Fortune in Extravagancies, particularly on the fair Sex, when he could
-no longer splendidly subsist, or afford the expence of unlawful
-Pleasures, being perpetually tormented with a violent inclination to
-Women; at last after a long continuance of Self-pollution, he
-couragiously Castrated himself, as the only cure of his vicious
-Appetite. But the next News I heard, as indeed I expected, was, that he
-had with equal resolution shot himself through the Head.
-
-’Tis very certain, that Persons in mean Circumstances, are thereby in
-many Respects render’d unable to pursue their darling Vices; but where
-the Principles are vitiated, or the Passions prevalent, there is no
-Shield of Self-defence against ill Actions: The Person wholly void of
-Honesty, will commit Thefts and Robberies upon the Persons of others to
-enrich himself; and the lustful Person will satisfy his Brutal
-inclinations by Friction, or other abominable Enjoyments, for want of
-ability, to purchase more acceptable Crimes: And as the want of
-Circumstances is many times a cause of Self-pollution, so the Person in
-possession of a large Fortune, is frequently guilty of the Sin of
-Whoredom, accompanied with more dreadful Consequences, and Nature only,
-under the severest Discipline, must in all Cases regulate the lustful
-Appetite.
-
-The design of providence, for the preservation of Mankind in a State of
-Innocence, is visible throughout all the works of the Creation; there is
-no condition of Life, but a Person may go thro’ free from Guilt and
-Infamy; and particularly in Uncleanness, Nocturnal-pollution proceeding
-meerly from Nature without force, is certainly intended to correct
-lustful Inclinations; but when it arises from vicious contemplations,
-and impure Ideas conceiv’d in the Mind, it is a sinful Act, though not
-equally criminal to Self-pollution.
-
-Pollution by the hand of a Woman, is always attended with more fatal
-consequences to the Man than any other; the impure Thoughts are more
-strongly impress’d by the presence of the Female, than its possible in
-her absence, and the imaginations so heighten’d by her Touch, as to
-commit the greater violence on Nature. By this, the parts are more
-considerably strain’d, and their natural Strength and Vigour abated.
-This naturally leads me to the various ways of Self-pollution in wanton
-Females, which are so intolerable, that Modesty forbids a particular
-Description. I shall only mention, that a Lascivious Woman, by the use
-of a pleasurable Toy, and an injection of Milk, or other Moisture, may
-possibly continue Self-pollution for a longer space than copulation with
-a Man, no Spirits being drain’d or Strength exhausted by the means
-herein applied; and ’tis reported that some lewd Females will commence
-this vile practice, before their Privities are fledg’d with Maturity.
-
-To demonstrate the consequences of a lewd Conversation in regard to the
-Crime of Self-pollution, I shall here present you with an ample account
-of a Club of Young Gentlemen, I have been inform’d, was not many Years
-ago establish’d in, or near _Long-Acre_; the most abominable Nursery of
-Lewdness and Debauchery, perhaps, that ever was heard of in any Country,
-unless it be in the remote parts of _Europe_ amongst the vile Sects of
-incestuous _Adamites_, whom Histories mention, when the Words _increase
-and multiply_, were repeated in their religious Service (which was very
-common) they immediately extinguish’d their Candles, and promiscuously
-mix’d in carnal Enjoyments. This Club ’tis said, was held thrice a Week
-at the House of a noted Victualler, who was a Stranger to the Actions of
-his Guests for a considerable time; they had a Supper and plenty of
-strong Liquors constantly provided to their no small Expence; they were
-govern’d by a President of the Night, who was commonly elected after
-Supper, and the whole Assembly struggled for this Honour: The method of
-Election was thus; every one according to his Seniority advanc’d himself
-in turn upon a high Joint-stool plac’d against a Wall, and with a sort
-of Emulation, there practis’d Self-pollution as long, as his strength
-would permit, and he that repeated the Sin the greatest number of times,
-was immediately declar’d their Chief for the next time of meeting: And
-to facilitate their unnatural Pleasures; their Eatings generally
-consisted of strong Soops, Gravies, Fish, Jellies, and other
-provocatives to Lust; and their whole Conversation turn’d on their
-Excellency and Perfection in this most detestable Crime. This Account I
-have had of this Club, with this Addition, that a Member of it might be
-known by his spindle Shanks, fallen Jaws, and pale wither’d Countenance,
-but as it is not within my own knowledge, I cannot aver it to be fact,
-and to me it seems so monstrous as not to be credited in the whole, what
-ever it may in part; however I thought fit to insert it, to render the
-Crime the more odious and hateful to all.
-
-And to this I may add other pernicious Consequences proceeding from this
-Crime, as an irrecoverable Impotency, which renders a Man inanimate,
-intoxicates his reason, and debases Nature, so as to occasion the
-_Diabetis_ and other fatal lingering Diseases; for the aliment of the
-Blood is so far vitiated and impair’d by a frequent repetition of this
-Sin, that it is wholly unable to perform its office of Circulation with
-any regularity.
-
-Thus I have detected the several Fallacies, Inconsistencies, and
-Impositions of the Author of _ONANIA_; prov’d that he is mistaken in the
-Crime of _ONAN_; that the design, of his Book was to encourage Lewdness,
-and thereby promote the sale of destructive Medicines, which many times
-occasion a conflux of Humours, and incurable Diseases; shewn that Quack
-Preparations promote the very Sin he with views of Interest pretends to
-discountenance, set forth the real Crime of _ONAN_, and the Causes and
-fatal Consequences of Self-pollution: I now proceed to the heinousness
-of the _SIN_.
-
-
-
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-
-                              _CHAP._ II.
-   _The_ _SIN_ _of_ _SELF-POLLUTION_, _the means to avoid it, and to
-                          attain_ _CHASTITY_.
-
-
-The Learned _Ostervald_ treating of the several Species of Uncleanness,
-says it is easy to discern ‘that impure Actions are forbidden for two
-Reasons. First, because they are likely means of carrying Men to the
-grosser Crime: People don’t ordinarily arrive at the height of
-Wickedness all at once, but by certain Steps and Degrees. They begin
-with what they think lawful; they accustom themselves to violate the
-rules of Chastity in such Instances, as they perswade themselves, can
-have no great hurt in them: But then from these lesser Offences, they
-proceed to others, whose Wickedness they cannot but be sensible of; and
-so at length they fall into the more horrid Crime. But in the second
-place, though we should never come thus far, and our unchaste Actions
-should never push us on to the utmost Licentiousness, they however
-defile the Soul; they increase the inclination to Uncleanness, and
-withdraw from God; as a very little Observation will inform those, who
-allow themselves in these sort of Liberties.
-
-‘To impure Actions, may be subjoin’d such Looks, as are contrary to
-Chastity, inasmuch, as a Man may be guilty also of Sin in this respect,
-whether in beholding such Objects, or in reading such Books, as may be
-apt to beget unlawful Desires. It is an undoubted Truth, that impure
-Passions are chiefly rais’d and inflam’d by the sight, and that it is
-impossible to continue Chast without a diligent care to govern the Eyes,
-and to turn them away from whatsoever might seduce the Heart. Let but
-any one enquire into the Objects I am speaking of, and the Impressions
-they are apt to make upon the Mind, and this will presently convince him
-of the Evil and Danger of suffering his Eyes to dwell upon them: These
-Objects pollute the Imagination, filling it with lustful Thoughts; and
-it is only through the Temptation of sensuality, that any can fix their
-Eyes upon them, or take any manner of pleasure in them. The holy
-Scriptures sufficiently caution against these undue Liberties; it was by
-the sight that _David_ was entic’d to commit Iniquity: And _Job_, who
-liv’d at a time when moral Chastity was less known, than it has been
-since, had yet learn’d, that the principal Duty of Chastity was to
-regulate the Sight.’
-
-
-There are many Things conducive to Chastity, as the pious example of
-Superiours, a Godly Conversation, Books of Devotion, a firm Resolution,
-Temperance, _&c._ And at all Seasons, Persons ought to use their utmost
-Endeavours for overcoming their inclinations to Impurity; but there are
-some times, and opportunities, wherein it is done far more easily than
-at others. In matters of Salvation, as well, as in all others, a great
-deal depends upon a choice of proper Seasons: No-body, but must have
-found, that he is not always equally well disposed: Upon some occasions
-a thing will appear almost insuperable, which yet will not be so at
-another time: Take a Man given to any particular passion, and in the
-instant, when he is seiz’d and transported with it: All you can say to
-the contrary, will make no Impression upon him; yet take the same Person
-out of his passion, when his Blood is cold, and you will see him very
-different. The Impure have their intervals, and these longer or shorter,
-and more or less frequent, according as the Habit they have contracted
-is stronger or weaker; there are some, over whom this passion has so
-great an Ascendency, that they are almost perpetually employ’d by it;
-yet such as these have some more favourable Moments, wherein they are
-capable of reflection, and wherein their Passion allows them some
-respite without opposition.
-
-But there is nothing to be done without Resolution and Confidence; and
-we may be assur’d, that God’s enjoining of Chastity, is an incontestable
-proof, that People may attain it: It is by no means to be presum’d, that
-our great Creator, who is all Justice, would under pain of Damnation
-command the observance of such Duties, as he knows to be entirely out of
-our power: No, there are means of performing what he injoins, not
-attended with unconquerable difficulties: And as it is he, who has
-ordered these means; so has he engaged himself to second them with his
-blessing, whenever we commence a sincere obedience to his Laws.
-
-It would be strange to find any make a Question of this; but it must be
-granted, that as this Duty is not to be acquir’d with equal ease at all
-times, so it is not alike easy to all sorts of Persons; and some find
-considerable trouble in it; and so it is in all the other Duties of
-Morality: There are some, who whether from their natural Tempers and
-Constitutions, or from the bad Habits they have contracted, are
-violently press’d on to certain Passions, and must encounter
-Self-difficulties before they can make the least conquest over them: An
-eagerness of Temper, and fullness of Heat, with an ill Habit too long
-indulg’d, will render Persons so prone to anger, that they must be very
-diligent and watchful, and always upon their guard, or they will not be
-able to avoid it; but it will very ill become these to offer this for
-their excuse; for by this means, there is no Person but would be able to
-vindicate himself: So in a temporal Sense, were Criminals allow’d to
-plead a strong inclination and proneness of Nature, to the committing of
-Crimes, there would be no such thing as Justice or Government in the
-World.
-
-Tho’ many Persons are strongly press’d to Impurity, yet it cannot be
-concluded, from hence, that there are no methods of Preservation from
-this Passion: If they brought themselves into this State by their own
-fault, and for want of using the means proper in order to Chastity, this
-is no Evidence that these means are not sufficient for their purpose:
-The Case is the same here, as if a Man had fallen into a dangerous
-Indisposition for not using certain Preservatives or Remedies, which
-does not shew that he had no means of preventing his Sickness, but only
-that he did not make a right use of them: Those who are entangled in
-this dangerous Passion, and whose return to Chastity appears very
-difficult, may yet be assur’d, that they may recover themselves: It is
-true, they may find it troublesome at first, but then they ought to
-remember, that it is but reasonable for them to cross their own
-Inclinations, and bear with some inconvenience to preserve themselves
-from fatal ruin: The trouble will daily lessen, and what at first seem’d
-insuperable, will become at length pleasant in the performance. There
-are certainly means of being Chast, and whosoever makes the Trial, will
-quickly find the benefit of them: As for those that will not use them,
-who will do nothing to fortify themselves, will not keep out of the way
-of Temptations, nor cross their vicious Inclinations in any thing; I
-confess it is my Opinion, that they will never attain any degree of
-Chastity, but then they have none but themselves to blame for it; it is
-their own fault, and not any defect in Religion, that they are in this
-Condition: And to such the Almighty has ordain’d a proper Remedy,
-whereby to avoid the excesses of the Flesh, which is _Marriage_.
-
-Meditation is an excellent means to Purity, it excites and recalls into
-the Mind, divers good Reflections, and abates the force of Temptations:
-There is no matter of Religion and Piety, which may not be revolv’d in
-our Minds to advantage; and there are many particular Meditations, that
-have a peculiar Virtue for dissuading from pollution; such as the
-presence of our Creator, Death, Resurrection, Judgment, _&c._ The
-thoughts of Death, which puts an end to all our Enjoyments here, must
-necessarily abate the allurements of sensual Pleasures. The thoughts of
-our Resurrection will force us to have a regard to Purity: And the
-thoughts of our Saviour’s Sufferings, are a powerful Motive, not to seek
-our own ease, and the satisfaction of our Senses in this World.
-
-One of the chief means of defence against Temptations to Impurity, is a
-distrust of our selves. This distrust proceeds from an Opinion and Sense
-of our own Weakness, and thereby a fear of being surpriz’d and ensnar’d
-by Temptations; distrust will produce Vigilance, which is a second means
-of defence against impure Thoughts. Persons ought to be very exact and
-scrupulous, as to every thing that leads to Impurity, and not to take
-too great liberty under any vain pretences. Mortification and Exercise
-are very good guards against Pollution; Idleness makes People wanton and
-vicious, and High-feeding very much heightens unlawful Desires.
-Curiosity is frequently a cause of the wanderings of the Mind and Heart;
-and a desire of satisfying it, proceeding from a secret Passion, being a
-great occasion of Pollution, this also is to be guarded against: And
-lastly, when Persons are under any manner of Temptations, the instant
-they are sensible of impure Thoughts in the Soul, they should be
-strenuously resisted. The first reception of impure Thoughts into the
-Soul, shews them to be pleasing to it; and the longer they are
-entertain’d there, the more this Pleasure encreases; and when this
-Pleasure once prevails, the Man is no longer in a capacity to defend
-himself: And there is no surer way to prevent a Conflagration, than by
-thoroughly extinguishing the first spark of Fire, on its immediate
-appearance.
-
-
-Thus much for the means to avoid Impurity, and to attain Chastity, I
-shall conclude this part of my Treatise, with what Mr. _Ostervald_
-observes of the Sin of Uncleanness in general, and with a few
-Reflections of my own, which may be of service to those, who make
-Chastity a difficulty. ‘All Uncleanness is a palpable Violation of our
-Baptismal Covenant, wherein we have solemnly oblig’d our selves to
-renounce the Flesh (that is to say, all sensuality and voluptuousness)
-as well as the World and the Devil. For there is no living up to this
-Profession and Obligation, without being continually upon our guard
-against all those sinful Lusts, which we have thus renounc’d. And
-indeed, what an affront is it to God, and what vile Treachery and breach
-of Covenant, when Persons have thus given up their Names to Christ, and
-promis’d to obey his holy Laws; and in particular, to abstain from all
-Impurity, if they shall yet draw back, and professing to know the
-Almighty shall in works deny him, living in wantonness and unlawful
-Pleasures, like the Gentiles, who knew him not, or rather in such
-detestable Lewdnesses, as the Wiser amongst these would have abominated?
-We cannot doubt, but that we are all strictly engag’d to cleanse our
-selves from Filthiness, both of Flesh and Spirit, and to perfect
-Holiness. And what a monstrous Incongruity must it be, for such to
-indulge themselves in any carnal and sensual Immoralities, in direct
-opposition to the Vow, so solemnly made against them! This must
-necessarily argue a great Stupidity, and regardlessness of their Duty,
-which is sufficiently blameable in any, but in Christians, who pretend
-to tread in their Saviour’s Steps, and to obey all his Commandments, is
-most exceedingly provoking.’
-
-
-Though the Sin of Uncleanness be heinous in it self, as appears by what
-has been said, and is oftentimes attended with a train of Crimes, as
-Lying, Quarrelling, and others of a flagitious Nature, yet are many
-Persons so estrang’d to Religion, and even to rational Ethicks, as to be
-entirely supine and negligent in the suppressing of Impure Cogitations;
-and on the contrary entertain them with indulgence; so that by degrees,
-illimitable Passions are establish’d, and the tide of Impurity, at last
-grows so strong and rapid, that it is not to be repell’d; whence all
-manner of Evils succeed.
-
-Having Theologically discuss’d the several particulars relating to
-Self-pollution, and other Uncleanness: I come now to my last head,
-treating of _Generation_, and the sensitive Parts effecting it; but I
-would by no means have my Reader think, that I examine these particulars
-with a design to excite Persons to Lewdness, when my Intentions are only
-to shew the fineness and Beauty of the Parts, whereby will appear how
-easily they may be violated and impair’d by an unnatural use.
-
-
-
-
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-
-                              _CHAP._ III.
- _A __DISSERTATION__ upon _Generation_; and of the _Parts_ administring
-                              thereunto._
-
-
-I shall begin with the instruments of _Generation_ in Men. All the parts
-of _Generation_ merit the Title of noble Parts, as well as the Brain and
-the Heart; and some Authors give them the preference before the other
-Parts of the Body, upon this consideration, that they preserve the
-Species, and the others only keep up the Individuum.
-
-The Yard is call’d by Physicians the _Membrum Virile_, because it
-distinguishes a Man from a Woman: It is plac’d at the lower and external
-part of the _Abdomen_, and is fasten’d to the _Os Pubis_. This Situation
-is the more commodious, for that it does not annoy any other part in the
-time of enjoyment.
-
-It has a very peculiar Substance, containing several Vessels, Muscles,
-Nerves, Arteries, _&c._ Its Skin is finer than that of any other part,
-to give it a more exquisite sense. It has no Fat; for if it encreas’d in
-Flesh in proportion with the rest of the Body; it would not only be of
-too large a size, but become soft, unactive, and insensible; and would
-cloud the Sense necessary to excite the Passion.
-
-The Yard performs its motions by virtue of four Muscles; two for
-Erection, and two for Ejaculation. These last squeeze the seminal
-Vesicles, and convey the Seed into the _Urethra_, from whence it sallies
-out with great force: It is divided into its Body, and two Ends; as for
-its two extremities one of them is call’d the Glans, or head of the
-Yard; the other which is fastened to the Belly, is call’d the Root, and
-is surrounded with Hair, especially upon its upper part, which is call’d
-the _Pubis_.
-
-The Glans, or head of the _Membrum Virile_, is the only fleshy part in
-the Yard; being soft and smooth, to prevent its hurting the Matrix of
-the Woman, and running in some measure to a point to facilitate its
-Entry: It is cover’d with a thin Membrane, which renders it sensible of
-the Titillation occasion’d by rubbing upon the Matrix; and in the time
-of Erection, the Spirits and Blood repair to it vigorously, when it
-swells and starts out of an uncommon length, assuming a lively red
-Colour; but upon the retreat of the Blood, it flaggs and becomes pale
-and shrivell’d.
-
-The _prepuce_ is the loose Skin at the utmost end of the Yard, which
-stretches out and covers the Nut, or draws down, to uncover it, as there
-is occasion: In time of Erection, it will draw down the Yard a
-considerable way, the easier to enter in Copulation: ’Tis tied under the
-Nut, with a fine Ligament call’d the Bridle, which must be cut when it
-is to short, and draws the orifice of the Nut downwards, by reason it
-hinders the Ejaculation of the Seed in a straight Line. The Prepuce
-enlarges the pleasure in Copulation, especially of the Women.
-
-The Yard has two Cavernous Bodies, one on each side, taking their rise
-from the lower part of the _Os Pubis_, and the Hip-bone, and these
-cavernous Bodies, or Nerves have two Substances, external and internal,
-the external one is thick, hard, and nervous, and the internal one, is
-spungy, thin, and fungous.
-
-The Erection of the Yard is owing to these cavernous Bodies, which being
-fill’d with Spirits, swell and extend themselves: And the arterious
-Blood being poured into the cavernous Bodies effects the distension of
-the Yard, as its lankness is occasion’d by sending of that Blood through
-the Hypogastrick Veins. The spungy Substance of the cavernous Bodies,
-stops the Blood for some time, whereby an erection is forc’d.
-
-In all Enjoyments, the animal Spirits are rouz’d by fancy, which strikes
-the _Idea_ of Pleasure, and when the Spirits are thus rais’d, they
-instantly repair to the Nerves of the Organs of _Generation_, and puff
-them up on mixing with the Blood, convey’d thither by the Arteries; and
-upon the mixture of these two, a Fermentation succeeds, whereby an
-Erection is effected.
-
-The _Urethra_ is a nervous Passage, extending from the neck of the
-Bladder, to the end of the Yard. It is a common passage for the Seed and
-Urine.
-
-The Testicles are so call’d from the Latin Word _Testes_, as they
-witness the vigour of a Man. They are seated without the Abdomen, at the
-root of the Yard; and enclos’d in the Scrotum, which is a Purse
-consisting of two Membranes; these Vessels do not prepare or form the
-Seed; but their office is to import the Blood from which ’tis separated.
-
-The Testicles are of an oval Figure, about the size of a Pigeons Egg,
-and in some larger: They are wrapt up in five Coats or fine Skins,
-_viz._ The _Scrotum_, _Dartos_, _Eritroides_, _Elitroides_, and the
-_Albuginea_; the two first are call’d common, and the three last are
-call’d proper. The outer Coat is shrivell’d and encompass’d with thin
-Hair. The Substance of the Testicle, is white, soft, and loose, compos’d
-of several small Seminals Vessels, and Capillaries, which are the
-Branches of the Arteries, Veins, Nerves, and Lymphatick Vessels.
-
-There are two Muscles call’d _Cremasters_, which keep the Stones
-suspended; and if these happen to be stronger than ordinary, they’ll
-move the Testicles of themselves.
-
-The most volatile part of the Blood is strain’d out from the rest by the
-Glandulous Pith of the Testicle, which gives passage only to the finest
-Particles, and obliges the rest to return to the Veins. This part of the
-Blood thus filtrated, is rais’d to a just degree of perfection by the
-length of the Pipes, through which it passes; and what adds to its
-refinement is the windings of these Pipes, which procure a mutual
-disunion, by whirling about. When the Seed is prepar’d, it is lodg’d in
-the expansion of the _Vasa Deferentia_; being first put in motion by the
-Heat of the Vein call’d the _Spermatick Artery_; and when the
-Imagination is enflam’d by amorous Thoughts, it suddenly breaks forth.
-
-The _Vasa Deferentia_ are Vessels seated partly in the _Scrotum_, and
-partly in the _Abdomen_; they convey the Seed by drops to the seminal
-Vesicles; the two extremities of the _Vasa Deferentia_ are compar’d to a
-Bunch of Grapes, and Guts of Birds.
-
-Two small Ducts of about an Inch in length, spring from these Vesicles;
-they are broad near the Vesicles, but dwindle as they approach to the
-_Urethra_, which they perforate. These Ducts are call’d Ejaculatory
-Vessels, because in the heat of Action, they throw the Seed of the
-Vesicles into the _Urethra_, and they are the chief Subjects of the
-pleasure attending Ejaculation.
-
-These small Ducts have ten or twelve Orifices, opening to the _Urethra_,
-each of them being shut by a small Caruncle to prevent the continual
-efflux of Humour, which has the precedency of the Seed. This is alledg’d
-to be the seat of a Clap, by reason volatile Salts fastning near,
-occasion Ulcers that corrode the Caruncles, and thereupon the Orifices
-of the Ducts discharge their slimy Liquor.
-
-The _Prostatæ_ are two Glandulous spungy Bodies, seated at the root of
-the Yard, by the head of the _Urethra_, and furnish’d with Arteries from
-the _Pudendæ_; their use is to make a secretion of slimy oily Liquor out
-of the Blood, to reserve it for some time in its Vesicles, and to
-squeeze it out by degrees, thro’ the Pipes of the small Ducts, to the
-_Urethra_.
-
-’Tis reported, that some Persons have three Testicles, and that others
-are so slenderly provided, as to have but one; tho’ either of the cases
-happens very rarely. And Animals which have their Testicles situated
-within, are always accounted more lascivious than others.
-
-There are four _spermatick Vessels_ belonging to the Privy Parts of a
-Man, two whereof are Arteries, and the other two Veins. The two
-spermatick Arteries spring from the Trunk of the _Aorta_; and run
-obliquely upon the _Ureters_, and along the _Muscle Posas_, ’till they
-arrive at the _Groin_, where they are receiv’d by a production of the
-_Peritonæum_, and so conducted to the Testicles.
-
-The two spermatick Veins branch out from the Testicles towards the _Vena
-Cava_. The Right extends it self straight to the Trunk of the _Cava_;
-but the Left terminates in the emulgent Vein. In their progress, they
-are join’d by small Veins from the _Peritonæum_, and the neighbouring
-Muscles, which are loaded with the superfluous Blood of those parts, in
-order to lodge it in the _Cava_.
-
-The spermatick Vessels are larger in Men than Women; and in both Sexes
-the Arteries are always stronger than the Veins. For the use of these
-Vessels, the Blood runs in the two Arteries straight to the Testicles,
-each of them dividing into two small Branches, the better to penetrate
-its Substance, by entring at several places, and to procure an exact
-separation of the seminal Particles, that accompany the Arterious Blood.
-And when this is perfected, the remainder of the Blood enters the
-Branches of the Veins, in order to return to the _Cava_.
-
-The _Valves_ in the Cavity of the Veins are plac’d at certain Intervals,
-in order to prevent the Arterious Blood from falling down. They are
-serviceable in promoting the ascent of the Blood, and their natural
-Disposition conducts it to the _Vena Cava_.
-
-
-                 _Of the _Privy Parts_ of a __WOMAN__._
-
-To pursue the method I have hitherto observ’d, I shall begin my
-Description of the Privities of a Woman, with the external Parts.
-
-The external Orifice is commonly call’d the _Pudendum_; ’tis compos’d of
-several parts, as the _Pubes_, the _Mons Veneris_, the Lips, and the
-great Slit.
-
-The _Pubes_ is seated on the forepart of the Share-bone, just above the
-_Pudendum_; and to keep off the annoyance that might arise from the
-hardness of the Bones in the amorous Adventure, it is rais’d and
-consists of Fat, which serves as a Cushion.
-
-_Mons Veneris_, rises like a little Hill about the great Lips, and is
-cover’d, as well as the _Pubes_, with a pretty good quantity of rough
-curling Hair, which begins to spring when the Female enters her
-Thirteenth or Fourteenth Year: It is seated a little lower than the
-_Pubes_.
-
-The great _Labia_, or great Lips, descend from the _Mons Veneris_, and
-meet in the _Perinæum_; they consist of doubled Skin, Fat and spungy
-Flesh; they are cover’d with Hair, but it is not so strong, as that of
-the _Pubes_ and _Mons Veneris_. In Girls they are firm, but in those who
-have been enjoy’d, they are flaggy.
-
-The great Slit is the space between the two Lips; it is call’d the great
-Slit, as being much larger than the entry of the Neck of the Womb.
-
-Upon separating the Thighs, and drawing aside the two Lips, are
-discover’d two soft and spungy Excrescences call’d _Nymphæ_; they
-resemble the Thrills, that hang under a Cock’s Throat; and their Colour
-is red, like that of a Cock’s Comb; their Substance is partly fleshy,
-and partly membranous, consisting of the doubled, and the inner Skin of
-the _Great Labia_. The _Nymphæ_ conduct forth the Urine; and of Virgins
-are so vigorous, that they discharge their Water with a Noise like
-hissing.
-
-Above the _Nymphæ_ within the great Cleft is situated the _Clitoris_, a
-long round and glandulous Body. This is said to be the principal seat of
-Pleasure, being endow’d with an exquisite Sense. In the heat of
-Enjoyment, it swells like unto a Mans Yard on an Erection, by virtue of
-the Blood and Spirits, that croud into it. For this reason it is call’d
-the Female Yard, and indeed, it appears like unto that of a Man in many
-particulars. This is the part for Friction.
-
-There are two Cavernous Nerves coming from the Hip-bone, call’d the Legs
-of the _Clitoris_; and there are four Muscles in the _Clitoris_, two for
-Erection, and two for Ejaculation; the two first run from the Hip-bone
-under the Cavernous Nerves; and the two others call’d _Pudendi_, take
-their rise from the Sphincter of the _Anus_. These Muscles serve to
-straighten the Orifice of the _Vagina_. The _Arteriæ Pudendæ_ furnish
-the _Clitoris_ with Blood, and the Veins of that Name carry off the same
-Blood into the _Cava_.
-
-Under the _Clitoris_ is the urinary Passage, larger and shorter than
-that of a Man, whereby Women send forth their Urine with the greatest
-violence and dispatch. This Passage is surrounded with a Sphincter,
-which is a Muscle that serves to confine, or give passage for the Urine
-at pleasure.
-
-Between the fleshy Fibres of the _Urethra_, and the Membrane of the
-_Vagina_, lie the _Prostates_, having several Channels which terminate
-in the lower part of the _Vulva_, and thereby discharge a slimy matter,
-which mixes with the seed of the Male, in the time of Enjoyment.
-
-And between the two great _Labia_, appear the four Caruncles call’d
-_Myrtiformes_ from the resemblance they bear to _Mirtle-berries_. They
-are small fleshy Eminences surrounding the small Slit, made of the
-fleshy Wrinkles of the _Vagina_, which render the Passage so much the
-straighter. Their use is to heighten the mutual pleasure of Enjoyment,
-by clinging round and locking up the Yard; and to facilitate the egress
-of the Child by extension. They are reddish firm and high in Virgins,
-and join’d sideways to one another by small Membranes, which tie them
-together, and make them resemble a Rose-bud half blown: But in other
-Women they are separated by the entry of the Yard.
-
-The uniting of the Membranes of the _Carunculæ Myrtiformes_, straighten
-the Passage, and afford the true mark of _Virginity_, (if there be any
-such.) The pain of the first Adventure is owing to the forcing of the
-Passage through, and tearing off those small Membranes; and a Mans
-Inclinations being always heighten’d in the first Nights Enjoyment, the
-pain to the Female is encreas’d by his ardent struggles; her Virgin
-Sufferings augmenting with his affection: But in some Females the
-_Caruncles_ are rang’d in such a manner, that the Yard may enter without
-violence, so that there is no certain Evidence of a Maiden-head.
-
-Some _Anatomists_ mention a Membrane call’d _Hymen_, seated near the
-_Caruncles_ in the _Vagina_, which continues stretched over the Passage,
-‘till the approach of a Man rends it; and that this _Hymen_ is a mark of
-_Virginity_; but this is more imaginary than proceeding from any
-Demonstration.
-
-The _Vagina_ is the neck of the Womb, a round Passage between the outer
-and inner Orifice, which receives the Yard like a Sheath. In Women that
-never bore Children, this Neck is about four Inches long, and an Inch
-and a half broad, but after Child-bearing, its capacity cannot be
-limited. It is nervous, and somewhat spungy, consisting of two
-Membranes; the Wrinkles of its inner Membrane empower it to prolong,
-dilate or contract, in order to fit the Yard, of any length or size, and
-to afford a Passage to the _Fœtus_. The Body and Neck of the Womb, make
-the Figure of a Bottle turn’d upside down, or rather a proud Flask.
-
-The inner Orifice of the Womb, is a perforation like the Head of a Man’s
-Yard; ’tis the beginning of a narrow Passage, which enlarges to afford a
-way for whatever enters or comes from the Womb; it opens to receive the
-Seed in the moment of Ejaculation; and upon Conception shuts close, and
-so continues till towards the last Month of the Woman’s Reckoning: It is
-compos’d of Membranes wrinkled and furl’d up, capable of dilating
-themselves to a great extent. This is the part which gives the Woman
-pain in Child Birth, the Orifice being small, and opening but gradually,
-pursuant to the Efforts of the _Fœtus_, which retards the Birth. After
-the Child is past; this Orifice is lost, and the whole Womb is only one
-large Cavity reaching from the entry of its Neck to the bottom; but this
-is of very short duration, for these parts very soon contract themselves
-like an empty Purse, and resume their natural posture. The Action of
-this inner Orifice is purely natural.
-
-The Substance of the bottom of the Womb is Membranous, and about a
-Fingers breadth thick, so that it dilates its self very commodiously:
-The inner Surface is interlac’d with a great many small Pores, and
-little Vessels which distil the menstrual Blood in Monthly Quantities.
-
-The Womb has Nerves, Arteries, and Veins, dispers’d. The Nerves give it
-a sense of Pleasure and Pain, and a sympathy with all parts of the Body:
-The Arteries and Veins are call’d the _Spermatick_ and _Hypogastrick_,
-and consist of an infinite number of Branches springing from all parts
-of the Womb, exporting the Blood to the Trunk of the _Vena Cava_: The
-Womb is sprinkled on all sides with Blood imported by the Arteries.
-These Arteries not only furnish the Womb with a proper Nourishment, but
-also pour in Blood upon the _Placenta_, in order to be sent through the
-Navel String to the _Fœtus_. When a Woman is not with Child, this Blood
-slips away thro’ the several Vessels into the Cavity of the Womb, and
-from thence it passes the _Vagina_ every Month. In teeming Women these
-Branches sometimes discharge Blood, when there is a greater quantity
-than is necessary for the Nourishment of the Child.
-
-The spermatick _Artery_ divides it self into two Branches, one repairing
-to the Testicle, and the other to the Womb. It carries Blood in one of
-its Branches to the Testicle, in order to the secretion of Seed, and by
-the other Branch it furnishes the Womb with Blood for its Nourishment,
-and the superfluous Blood is carried back by two Branches of Veins, one
-from the Testicle, and the others from the Womb.
-
-The Testicles of a Woman are call’d _Ovaria_; and they differ in
-Situation, Figure and Substance from those of Men. They are seated
-within the _Abdomen_ upon the sides of the bottom of the Womb. Some
-Writers are of opinion, that Nature plac’d the Testicles of Women within
-to heat the Seed and work it up to a degree of perfection: Others tell
-us, that the design of this Situation was to excite Women to Generation.
-The use of the Testicles is to filtrate the Seed and reserve it; and to
-perform at once the office of a Man’s Testicles.
-
-Their Figure is broad and flat, (seldom exceeding the Substance of a
-small Pigeons Egg) they are tied and held fast by some part of the Flag
-of the Trumpet; and they are knit to the spermatick Vessels, which grow
-larger after the Egg has taken Root in the Womb. For their Substance,
-they are a collection of Vesicles, commonly took for Eggs. In the
-_Ovarium_ of a Woman are a Million of fine small Blood Vessels dispers’d
-upon the Tunicles; and small imperceivable _Glandules_, that strain out
-a white milky Liquor, which attains perfection in the cavity of these
-Vesicles, and then composes the matter of the Egg, which includes the
-Sperm that contains the _Fœtus_.
-
-The more volatile part of the Seed of a Man passes through the _Tubæ_ to
-the _Ovarium_, in order to fecundate the Eggs. The _Tubæ_ are of the
-form of a Trumpet, which gives them their Name: They take rise from the
-bottom of the Womb, and their Orifice, which is continually open, is
-lac’d round with small Membranes like a Fringe, and is call’d the
-_Devil’s-bit_, or the Flag of the Trumpet. The office of the _Tubæ_, is
-to facilitate the descent of the Egg into the Womb. The seminal Spirit
-puts the _Tubæ_ in motion, whereby the jagged part embraces the
-_Ovarium_, and the Egg fermented by the Spirits of the Seed, insensibly,
-disengages it self from the _Ovarium_, and breaking its Membrane, enters
-the _Tubæ_, in order to descend into the Cavity of the Womb: And in case
-of Twins, or where two or three Children are Born; they always spring
-from the like number of Eggs, disengag’d from the _Ovarium_ at the same
-time. The extremities of the _Tubæ_ inserted into the bottom of the Womb
-are call’d the _Horns_.
-
-The Womb is cover’d with the _Peritonæum_; and a peculiar Membrane which
-lines the whole inside; and the bottom is generally smooth and even, but
-the Neck is always furl’d. The Ligaments are nothing else but
-Productions of the _Peritonæum_, which come from the Loins, and are
-inserted in the bottom of the Womb to prevent its falling down upon the
-Neck: They likewise keep the Womb from mounting too high: When these
-Ligaments are unbent, they resemble Bats Wings.
-
-There are several _Lymphatick Vessels_ belonging to the Womb, which
-creep along its outer part, and after a reuniting into large parts,
-empty themselves into the Cistern of the Chyle.
-
-The Womb has a short Neck, distinguish’d by that Name from the _Vagina_;
-it is the Passage which reaches from the inner Orifice to the principal
-Cavity of the Womb: It is about an Inch long.
-
-In the Cavity of the Womb, the two _Horns_ dilate themselves, and form
-particular Bags, each of which contains a _Fœtus_. This Cavity enlarges
-itself more or less in proportion to the bigness of the _Fœtus_, or the
-number of Children, as in case of Twins.
-
-The Womb is seated in the lower part of the _Hypogastrium_, between the
-straight Gut and the Bladder. The Cavity where ’tis lodg’d, is call’d
-the _Pelvis_ or _Basin_, and is larger in Women than in Men, so as to
-give the Womb liberty to distend it self upon Impregnation; it is tied
-fast at the bottom, and at the Neck. The Neck is knit before to the
-Bladder, and the Share-bone, and behind to the straight Gut and the _Os
-Sacrum_. The bottom is not tied so fast as the Neck, it requiring more
-liberty to move and dilate it self; but to prevent the shifting of its
-Seat, the Ligaments are equipp’d, being four in Number, two above, and
-two below.
-
-Having describ’d the Privities of Man and Woman: I come now to my
-dissertation upon the _Generation_ of Man, and the more particular use
-and dimensions of the Parts employ’d therein.
-
-
-                   _Of the _Generation_ of __MAN__._
-
-An Animal cannot be produc’d without a Couple, _viz._ a Male and a
-Female, each of which performs its part in the work of _Generation_.
-
-Their entring on this work is call’d Copulation, which is the joining of
-the Male to the Female: And both of them are equally transported with a
-furious and restless Passion, occasion’d by a mix’d motion of pleasure
-and pain in the _Genitals_, which strongly excites a desire for each
-other.
-
-As this Enjoyment is natural, there needs no Instruction; Instinct in
-all Animals directs the way of acting, that is most convenient for
-propagating their Species: And a Man, though brought up in never so
-great Ignorance, at his Age of Maturity naturally enclines to it, and
-needs no other Guide but the dictates of Nature to find out the center
-of Enjoyment.
-
-But if Nature had not planted in the _Genitals_ a sense of extraordinary
-pleasure in the amorous Engagement, Man would seldom give himself the
-trouble of Copulation: The cause of this pleasure some impute to the
-mixing of Spirits with the Seed, which give a pleasing tickling; and
-that this is encreas’d by the fineness and bending of the _Nervous
-Fibres_ of the parts: Others are of opinion, that the Salt in the Seed,
-and the Spirits accompanying, prick the parts through which they pass
-and occasion such an agreeable Titillation: And some give this reason
-for the pleasure, that as in Eating we have an Enjoyment, which no part
-but the Tongue and Palate partake of; so in Copulation a peculiar
-pleasure arises, of which the _Generation_ Organs are only sensible; and
-that Animals are mov’d to the Act of _Generation_, as they are to
-Eating.
-
-The tickling Pleasure which affects Women, proceeds from the Emotion,
-that is excited when the Seed disengages it self from the Testicle, and
-passes through the Cavities of the ejaculatory Vessels, in order to be
-darted into the Womb. When a Woman is not with Child, the Seed is thrown
-into the Womb by the shortest Vessel, and when she is pregnant, the Seed
-is thrown into the Neck of the Womb by the longest Branch: And for this
-reason, big-belly’d Women are more passionately fond of Embraces than
-others; for the Seed spending more time in its intricate Passage, raises
-a more transporting and lasting Titillation.
-
-In respect to the Parts of a Man employ’d in the work of _Generation_,
-the Yard when lank cannot go about it; and it may be so stiff, as not to
-be proper: And sometimes the erection of the Yard is so strong, that it
-is always bent: A large Yard does not stand so readily, as a small one;
-and when it does it cannot subsist so long, by reason it requires more
-Blood to fill it; and when full, it is heavier, and consequently apt to
-fall in a very little time: And the business of _Generation_ suffers no
-alteration from the shortness or length of the Yard within the Neck of
-the Womb; for the office of the two round Ligaments, is to enforce the
-bottom of the Womb to approach the head of the Yard, in order to receive
-the Seed in time of Ejaculation: But ’tis as difficult a matter to
-perswade some Lascivious Females, that a Yard of small Dimensions is
-equally useful and pleasurable to one of a considerable Longitude and
-Circumference, as it is to perswade a Club of Ravenous Stomachs, that a
-thin shrivell’d Shoulder of Mutton is of equal Goodness with a Haunch of
-well-fed Venison.
-
-The parts of Women frequently differ in their Extent and Furniture; a
-great many Husbands are such Fools, as to covet difficulty in their
-first Approaches; and to measure the Virtue of their Wives, by the
-labour of their consummating Attack; not considering Nature has so
-order’d, that the Privy Parts are in the same Condition with the Mouth
-and the Eyes; some are little, and others are large; so that those who
-have naturally the larger size, may be unjustly charg’d with Lewdness;
-and on the other hand, those, who by the natural disposition of the
-Parts are straighter, may after Copulation be reputed Virgins. A Little
-Woman may have a large Mouth, _&c._ and a large Woman a little one,
-whereby the lesser Person may have the more capacious Privities: And the
-same rule may be observ’d in Men, in respect to the Nose, which seems to
-have equal Authority in determining the Dimensions nature has provided
-in the Male, as the Mouth or Eyes in the Female.
-
-Nature does not always observe an exact rule of _Symmetry_, the visible
-Limbs and Parts are oftentimes disproportion’d; we frequently see a
-large personable Man, supported with slender Legs, and a Dwarf equip’d
-with large nervous Calves; and the same want of proportion is certainly
-to be found in the Privities.
-
-I have known a wanton Female marry a Person of an extraordinary Stature,
-in expectation of a large Pleasure, with Sorrow confess she was greatly
-mistaken. And as a strong Soil does not constantly afford the most
-plentiful Crop of productive Grain; so the Privy Parts of a robust
-Person, are not always stock’d with the greatest quantity of surrounding
-Ornaments.
-
-But to return to the Privy Parts of Women; in some extraordinary cases,
-the Lips of the _Matrix_, may be so closely join’d, that a Yard of the
-smallest Size, cannot possibly enter (when they are to be artfully
-separated by a Surgeon:) And in other Females the Passage is so wide,
-that the largest Member will make its way without the least difficulty:
-And I at this time know a Gentleman very well provided in the parts of
-_Generation_ (beyond what is common) that has had three Wives, all of
-them of unspotted Reputations, and the oldest not above Nineteen; who
-affirms that the Nights of consummation with each of his Spouses; he was
-in quite to the Testicles in his first penetrating attempt.
-
-The same Gentleman has declar’d, that in his Youth, when his Curiosity
-led him to the utmost variety; he has sometimes met with a Lady of
-Pleasure, whose Parts must be suppos’d to be extended to the utmost
-latitude of Nature, and to which upon Examination, no binding
-Preparations had been applied; that he could not possibly enter in the
-most encountering Embrace, which sufficiently shews the incertainty of
-Nature, and the difficulty attending the proof of Virginity. And this
-Gentleman is of the same Opinion with many others, that a narrow
-entrance to the Privy Parts of a Female, very much impedes a mutual
-Enjoyment.
-
-Thus much for the Dimensions of the Privities: I now proceed to
-_Generation_. When the Fancy warm’d with an _Idea_ of Pleasure,
-occasions a diffusion of the Animal Juice, of Consequence ensues
-Erection: An Erection being effected, and the Yard lodg’d in the Neck of
-the Womb; the Seed taking leave of the seminal Vesicles, passes through
-the Ejaculatory Vessels, and enters the _Urethra_; from whence ’tis
-squirted out with a Jirk, by vertue of the Convulsions that then seize
-the Yard: And as Ejaculation the last point of the Man’s Action, is the
-critical moment of pleasure, so ’tis the principal aim, he has in View,
-and all the Circumstances that usher it in, have an eye upon that
-Instant: The sanguine Person is the most amorous, and produces the
-greatest quantity of laudable Seed.
-
-
-The Seed of a Man being syring’d into the Privy Parts of a Woman by the
-Yard, it repairs to the bottom of the Womb, and its inner Orifice shuts
-it self close: ‘After which the Seed being embrac’d and press’d by the
-Womb, all its Particles begin to take their respective Posts; the
-subtilest continue in the Center, and consequently the grosser and
-superfluous Parts are thrust towards the Surface, where they produce the
-After-birth, the Navel-string, and the Membranes, in which the _Fœtus_
-is wrapt. In the mean time all the Particles calculated for forming the
-different parts of the Body, disengage themselves by the force of their
-motion, and either part or join according to their mutual Disparity or
-Conformity; so that those design’d for the head Assemble in the place
-where they ought to be; and those for the rest of the Body do the like:
-And at the same time among those calculated for the Head, the Particles
-qualify’d for forming the Eyes, Ears, _&c._ rendezvous in their proper
-places: The same may be said of the Particles of which the Breast,
-Belly, and Limbs are compos’d. The Form, Structure, Order and Connection
-of all these parts, depends chiefly upon the Spirit enclos’d within the
-Seed; which by the meer necessity of its Motions, and without any
-Knowledge or Understanding, unravels the _Chaos_ where the Particles lay
-confus’d, and ranks them in the same Order, that they had when lodg’d in
-the Body of the Animals, from which they sprung. The parts of the
-_Fœtus_ being thus form’d, the subtilest part of the Spirit continues in
-the Center of the new-form’d Body, _i. e._ the Heart; and there makes a
-sort of Fire without Light (being the natural Heat that gives Life)
-which is fed by the circular motion of the Blood that passes there
-incessantly.’ This is the most probable _Idea_ of forming the _Fœtus_,
-and what passes in the Womb, that is given by any Ancient or Modern
-Writers.
-
-Some are of Opinion, that the _Fœtus_ is form’d of a mixture of the Male
-and Female Seed; and that these two Seeds impregnated with the Spirit of
-Life, are the agent and matter of _Generation_. Some alledge that the
-Male Seed is sufficient of it self to form a _Fœtus_; and that the Woman
-only gives it a lodging, and furnishes the necessary Blood for its
-nourishment in the Womb: The Male being in this sense, look’d upon as an
-accomplish’d and perfect piece of Work, and the Female only a fertile
-Ground, which produces good Seed where the Labourer sows it well: And
-others are of opinion, that the Woman’s Seed contains the first, and the
-true Model of the _Fœtus_; there being small seminal Vesicles in the
-Testicles of a Woman, call’d the Eggs; which contain within themselves,
-all that is necessary to give the _Fœtus_ a Being.
-
-But the most common and rational Opinion is, that of the _Fœtus_ being
-form’d by the mixing of the two Seeds in the Womb; that Man and Woman
-are equally perfect; and that both of them being furnish’d with
-Testicles, which make a secretion of Seed, both of them must supply; and
-a Woman cannot be got with Child, unless she and the Man ejaculate their
-Seed at the same time.
-
-Those enclining to believe, that the Male Seed is sufficient of it self
-to form a _Fœtus_, plead that the Seed of a Man differs vastly from that
-of a Woman: That the former is white, and of a thick consistence,
-compos’d of all the parts that are capable to form a Body; and that the
-latter is only a sharp and yellowish serosity, which cannot contribute
-any thing towards the form of the _Fœtus_. But this is esteem’d by other
-Persons a groundless fancy; for the Structure of a Woman’s Testicle is
-more admirable than that of a Man, which shews that the Seed separated
-by it, is of considerable use: And several Children have their Mothers
-Features and Humour, which demonstrates that the Father, to whom they
-oftentimes bear no resemblance, does not furnish all himself.
-
-Those Persons who pretend that the Woman’s Seed contains the first, and
-the true Model of the _Fœtus_, compare the Female Testicles to a bunch
-of Grapes, or a Bee-hive; consisting of Vesicles, each of which contains
-a little Animal, almost compleated in all its Parts, after the same
-manner as the Egg of a Fowl: And that Man’s Seed contributes to
-_Generation_, no otherwise than as it animates the Egg: But the Opinion
-which is generally receiv’d, is that both the Male and the Female Seed
-contain such Particles, as are qualify’d to form a Body and a Spirit
-capable of all the Motions perform’d by the Animal, from which they have
-Being; and that _Generation_ depends upon an exact mixture of the two
-Seeds.
-
-The Opinions relating to the matter whereof the Seed is compos’d, are no
-less various than those of the forming of the _Fœtus_; some Anatomists
-say, ’tis prepar’d by the concoction and conversion of Blood, effected
-in this manner. The Blood imported to the Testicles by four spermatick
-Vessels, two Arteries and two Veins: The Vein and Artery of the same
-side, having a mutual Communication, blend the arterious and venous
-Blood together; and this mixture of arterious and venous Blood boyl and
-convert into Seed by the peculiar faculty and virtue of the Organs of
-the Testicles: This was the Opinion of the Antients.
-
-Others say, that the Seed is a Juice imported by the Nerves to the
-Organs of _Generation_; and that it distills from the Brain to the
-Privities; that in the time of Ejaculation one may feel it trickling
-along the _Spina_ of the Back; that when the Adventure is over, the
-Animal is feeble and dejected through the great Dissipation of the
-Spirits that are hurry’d along with the Seed; and that the Seed is of
-the same colour with the animal juice of the Nerves.
-
-Other Anatomists tell ye the Seed is compos’d of an infinity of little
-Animals, which they call seminary; that these swim and flutter about in
-the Liquor, and may be easily discover’d with a Microscope; that these
-seminal Animals are so many Seeds of Men, which being convey’d to the
-_Ovarium_, strike at the first Egg they meet with; upon which one of
-them perforates the Membrane, or gets into the Egg by a suppos’d
-Orifice, and presently shuts it self up, leaving the rest to perish
-without Doors, unless some of them have the good Fortune to slip into
-another Egg. The Animal that enters the Egg, serves for _Sperm_, which
-by swelling it up, prompts it to disengage it self from the _Ovarium_,
-and tumble into the _Tuba_, which conducts it to the Womb.
-
-But the most substantial reasons given for the composure of the Seed are
-grounded upon Circulation, that the seminal Particles are separated and
-filtrated from the Blood by the Testicles; and Anatomists acquainted
-with the Structure of the Testicles, say, that the Seed is produc’d by a
-continual Filtration of several Particles, which being gather’d into a
-Body, make a Liquor that is qualify’d for the forming of a Man.
-
-Mr. _Lamy_ in his Anatomical Discourses, says, that the same necessity
-which obliges Plants after a set period of time to put forth the Seeds
-which give being to others, does likewise influence Animals at a certain
-Age to produce prolifick Seed, which he explains thus: The moisture of
-Infancy being consum’d by the overpowering Heat, the Blood is crouded
-with a greater number of Corpusculums qualified to nourish the Parts and
-repair their Losses, than there is occasion for; so that a great number
-of these nutritious Particles meeting with no reception in the
-respective Parts, return along with the Blood. The Head sends back such
-Particles as are proper for recomposing all the different Parts it is
-made of; and so do the other parts. Now all these various sorts of
-Particles being mix’d with the Blood, are strain’d through the
-Testicles; after which they rally and compose a Humour which is the
-sensible and corporeal part of the Seed of Man.
-
-Seed is a very sweet Liquor when ’tis in a regular State, but when ’tis
-long under confinement, it turns perfectly sower, and causes very
-pernicious effects in both Male and Female. Men are harsher in their
-Tempers, and frequently attack’d with Vapours to a degree; and Women are
-thrown into a deplorable Condition, which will find no absolute Cure,
-till the stagnating Seed is evacuated by Marriage: The Seed mixing with
-the Blood breaks its Texture and changes its Consistence; so that by
-rendring it more serous, liquid and cold, and by flattening the Redness
-of the Blood, it makes the colour of the Skin less lively; and at length
-occasions the _Virgins_ Distemper.
-
-_Monsieur_ _DIONIS_ is of opinion, that most of the Nuns and other Girls
-that are taken to be possess’d with Devils, were subject to Vapours only
-when they acted the awkward extravagancies that History is full of. And
-I have been inform’d by the learned Dr. _C——n_, and other eminent
-Physicians, that Vapours will so powerfully prevail in some Young
-Females, by a stagnation of the Seed, that they are oblig’d to prescribe
-extraordinary Remedies, and sometimes Friction to procure relief; and to
-prevent Convulsions, irregular Imaginations, _&c._ which would otherwise
-ensue, if not a perfect Lunacy for a time.
-
-An early Marriage is the most effectual Preservative against the
-numerous Disorders proceeding from quantities of Seed unnaturally
-confin’d; and will render a perfect Health and Tranquility; unless it be
-in the case of Impotency; or in some Countries where a Man by tying a
-Knot upon his Codpiece, when the Priest pronounces such and such Words
-on the day of Marriage; lays claim to a right of preventing its
-Consummation: But if a Man cannot consummate his Marriage, you’ll always
-find it proceed from a natural Cause; and that the Devil has no hand in
-it.
-
-To conclude my Subject of _Generation_, and the Parts employ’d therein:
-I shall here insert an Observation of St. _Augustin. The Instruments of
-Generation (_says he_) are a call’d _Pudenda_, because they speak our
-Shame in this, that he who commands all the other Parts, cannot reduce
-these to Obedience._
-
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-  <h1 class='c001'><span class='center'>ONANISM<br> <span class='xlarge'>DISPLAY’D:</span><br> BEING,</span><br> I. An Enquiry into the true Nature of ONAN’S SIN.<br> II. Of the Modern <i>Onanists</i>.<br> III. Of <i>Self-Pollution</i>, its Causes, and Consequences; with three extraordinary Cases, of two Young Gentlemen and a Lady, who were very much Addicted to this Crime.<br> IV. Of <i>Nocturnal-Pollutions</i> Natural and Forc’d.<br> V. The Great Sin of <i>Self-Pollution</i>, with the Judgment of the most Eminent Divines upon this Subject.<br> VI. A Dissertation concerning <i>Generation</i>, with a curious Description of the Parts, and of their proper Functions, <i>&#38;c.</i> according to the latest, and most approv’d Anatomical Discoveries.</h1>
-</div>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c002'>
-    <div>Made <i>English</i> from the <i>Paris</i> Edition.</div>
-    <div class='c003'><span class='sc'>The Second Edition.</span></div>
-    <div class='c003'><i><em class='gesperrt'>LONDON</em></i>:</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c004'>Printed for <span class='sc'>E. Curll</span>, over against
-St. <i>Dunstan</i>’s Church in <i>Fleet-street</i>.
-MDCCXIX. (Price 1 <i>s.</i> 6 <i>d.</i>)</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id001'>
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_i'>i</span>
-<img src='images/i_i.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'>
-</div>
-
-<div>
-  <h2 class='c005'>PREFACE.</h2>
-</div>
-
-</div>
-
-<p class='drop-capa0_0_6 c006'><i>The Reader will immediately
-be sensible, that I have been
-led into the first part of this Treatise
-upon tracing the Impositions and Inconsistencies
-of the Author of a Pamphlet
-Entitled <span class='normal'>Onania</span>; and for the latter
-part it may be easily concluded to proceed
-from no other Motive, but the
-Dictates of Nature.</i></p>
-
-<p class='c007'><i>It was impossible for an Author
-of any Spirit, after a particular
-description of the unnatural use of
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_ii'>ii</span>the Parts, that he could finish his
-Labours without thoroughly examining
-their admiral Structure: They
-being no less curious than delightful
-to a Youthful Swain, that’s fir’d with
-Imagination.</i></p>
-
-<p class='c007'><i>The infinite number of fine Vessels
-are pleasing in Representation, as well
-as otherways Ravishing, and the
-Nerves and Arteries are equally
-beautiful, as they are transporting.
-The great and exquisite sense of the
-Parts of <span class='normal'>Generation</span>, give an Enjoyment
-transcending all others; and the
-Wisdom of our Creator, for the support
-of the World, cannot be too sufficiently
-admir’d, in that Man is propagated
-by an excess of Pleasure.</i></p>
-
-<p class='c007'><i>The following Treatise, I have by
-no means compos’d to give a loose
-to Debauchery. I have only persu’d
-the common Rules of Anatomy in
-this way of Writing, and interspers’d
-a great variety of curious Observations
-and natural Consequences
-as yet unobserv’d, and I was naturally
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_iii'>iii</span>induc’d to it more for the Information
-of Mankind in general,
-than for the Sons of <span class='normal'>Æsculapius</span> in
-particular. The Gentleman of all
-Ranks not superannuated, may find
-some Pleasure in perusing it, and the
-fair Sex will meet with such ample
-Instructions, as not to fail in the
-choice of an agreeable Person, for
-the amorous Combat.</i></p>
-
-<p class='c007'><i>For my <span class='normal'>Dissertation</span> upon the <span class='normal'>Generation</span>
-of <span class='normal'>Man</span>, I am chiefly oblig’d
-to <span class='normal'>Messieurs Lamy</span>, and <span class='normal'>Dionis</span>,<a id='r1'></a><a href='#f1' class='c008'><sup>[1]</sup></a>
-those two excellent Anatomists;
-and if, in some parts of my Performance,
-I seem more Ludicrous than
-any Author that has hitherto writ
-on the Subject; you’ll find on due consideration,
-’tis owing to a more exact
-Enquiry; and Curiosity is not easily
-satisfied in the depth of the secrets
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_iv'>iv</span>of Nature. And I hope what I
-have mention’d from a Learned
-<span class='normal'>Casuist</span>,<a id='r2'></a><a href='#f2' class='c008'><sup>[2]</sup></a> will be a sufficient Antidote
-against the unlawful use of those
-curious Parts I have so particularly
-described; as an Addition to which
-I farther recommend a small Treatise
-(not long since publish’d,) Entitled,
-<em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'><span class='normal'>Essays</span></span></em> relating to the <span class='normal'>Conduct
-of Life</span>, which contain sufficient
-and easy Instructions for a regular
-<span class='normal'>OEconomy</span>, not only where
-the Passions are prevalent, but in
-all the Vicissitudes incident to Human
-Nature.</i></p>
-
-<div class='footnote' id='f1'>
-<p class='c007'><a href='#r1'>1</a>. <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Dissertation sur la Generation de
-L’Homme. Par <i>Monsieur Dionis, Paris 1697</i>.</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class='footnote' id='f2'>
-<p class='c007'><a href='#r2'>2</a>. <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Traite de l’Impuritie, par <i>Monsieur
-Ostervald</i>.</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c007'><i>In the Writing of this small Work
-I carelesly omitted a material scrutiny
-of a Paragraph in <span class='normal'>Onania;
-Page 16</span>. says this Author, ‘some
-Women are with held from being
-Prostitutes by their covetousness
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_v'>v</span>only: Others for nothing else, but
-the fear of Diseases, or the having
-of Children. Lascivious Widows,
-who understand the World have
-reason to scruple second Marriages
-on many accounts; some love their
-Liberty; others their Money; and
-if they value their Reputation,
-they’ll not dare to venture on unlawful
-Embraces; whereas in Self-pollution,
-neither the Cautious,
-nor the Covetous imagine that they
-have any thing to fear.” I take
-it that this very plainly encourages
-the Sin of Self-pollution, if I may
-be allow’d to deduce the Consequences
-of the latter from the former; for
-he first says rightly, that unlawful Embraces
-are injurious to Reputations;
-but then insinuates that Self-pollution
-may be practis’d without any Apprehensions.
-This and many other
-parts of his Treatise, demonstrate
-his View to be the sale of his Medicines,
-though with a great deal of
-Cant he pretends the contrary, besides
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_vi'>vi</span>the very tacking of his Apothecary’s-shop,
-to his stupid Performance,
-without any farther considerations
-sufficiently shews his real Intentions.
-And I am so far from imitating this
-ignorant <span class='normal'>Empirick</span>, that the only Remedy
-I prescribe, is that Infallible
-<span class='normal'>Specifick</span>, in every ones power,
-<em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'><span class='normal'>Chastity</span></span></em>.</i></p>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i_vi.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'>
-</div>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id001'>
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_1'>1</span>
-<img src='images/i_001.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'>
-</div>
-
-<div class='ph1'>
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-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c009'>
-    <div><span class='xxlarge'>ONANISM</span></div>
-    <div><span class='xlarge'>DISPLAY’D.</span></div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-
-</div>
-
-<div>
-  <h2 class='c005'><em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Introduction.</span></em></h2>
-</div>
-
-</div>
-
-<p class='drop-capa0_0_6 c006'>The Author of a late Pamphlet
-entitled <em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Onania</span></em> has by a
-Bundle of Theological Phrases, Scripture
-Quotations, and an affected Simplicity,
-attempted to possess the World
-with an Opinion, that his Designs in
-publishing that Treatise, were meerly
-with spiritual Views, and out of a
-tender regard to the preservation of
-the Healths and Constitutions of the
-degenerate part of Mankind, without
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_2'>2</span>any the least Mercenary Expectations;
-and since it may possibly
-bear this Construction with Persons
-carelesly perusing his Performance,
-and the ignorant Multitude:
-I shall make it my Business to set
-forth the Absurdity, inconsistency,
-and imposture of this supercilious
-Scribler in every part; to prove that
-his Treatise tends to the encouragement
-of Lewdness and Debauchery;
-that his own Medicines promote the
-very Sin, he, for Interest sake, takes
-upon him to Discountenance; and
-to demonstrate, that he is really ignorant
-of what was the Crime of
-<span class='sc'><em class='gesperrt'>Onan</em></span>. But I shall premise that
-my Scheme is no ways calculated to
-propagate any manner of Uncleanness,
-but on the contrary to discourage
-the practice of self-pollution, by illustrating
-the Sin more particularly;
-and enumerating more extraordinary
-Instances than hitherto any
-Author has done on the Subject.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_3'>3</span>I agree with this Author in the
-Opinion of the Divine he has
-quoted, that Self-pollution is a
-Crime in it self, monstrous and unnatural;
-its Practice filthy and odious,
-its Guilt crying, and its Consequences
-ruinous: It destroys conjugal
-Affection, perverts natural Inclination,
-and tends to extinguish the
-hopes of Posterity; but I take leave
-to observe that the Author of
-<em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Onania</span></em> is egregiously mistaken in
-fixing this Crime upon <em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Onan</span></em>, as
-I shall incontestably prove when I
-have gone thro’ my Examination of
-his trifling Performance, which I
-purpose to do with all the exactness
-imaginable.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>And first, in Page 14. After setting
-forth Ignorance to be the first cause
-of Self-pollution, this Author goes on
-and tells you, that the second is the secrecy
-with which Self-pollution may
-be committed: All other Actions of
-uncleanness (says he) must have a
-Witness, this needs none. Some
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_4'>4</span>lustful Women of sense, have made
-all the outward shew of Virtue and
-Morality that can be requir’d; they
-have had prudence enough, in the
-midst of strong Desires, to refuse
-disadvantageous Matches, and yet
-have abandon’d themselves to this
-Vice, when at the same time they
-would rather have died than betray’d
-a weakness to any Man living, as
-afterwards, becoming Penitents, they
-have confessed themselves. And again
-some young Men of vicious Inclinations,
-have either naturally, or
-for want of a liberal Education been
-shame-fac’d to excess; they have not
-dar’d to look upon a Woman, and
-their Bashfulness has secur’d them
-from every act of Impurity but this.
-From all which it is evident that the
-secrecy of this Sin, has betray’d many
-into it, whom hardly any thing else
-would have tempted.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>In answer to this, tho’ it must be
-confess’d that secrecy in some measure
-promotes this Vice, yet Ignorance
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_5'>5</span>and the want of a liberal Education
-can in no respect be constru’d to
-have an equal Effect: An ignorant Person
-may be rationally presum’d to be
-less influenc’d by impure Imaginations,
-than a Person of a tolerable
-share of Sense; his Ignorance may
-be so extensive, as to cloud all manner
-of Enjoyments, and allow him
-no Thoughts of pursuing imaginary
-pleasures; whilst the Man of
-sense is perpetually devising new Diversions,
-and proportions his Enjoyment
-to the extent of his Capacity;
-he vigorously pursues the Tracts of
-Lewdness and Debauchery, and is
-restless and uneasy, until he has acted
-in all Scenes, and gone thro’ the utmost
-variety of brutal Enjoyments;
-this I take to be highly conspicuous
-in the Rakes of the Town, who are
-frequently Persons of sprightly Wit,
-and endu’d with no small share of
-substantial Sense.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>And as for the want of a liberal Education,
-I cannot easily guess at the
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_6'>6</span>meaning of the Author, unless it be
-the want of being train’d up in the
-Hundreds of <i>Drury</i>, it being very
-certain that in a Scholastick Education,
-the perusal of ludicrous Authors,
-which all Youths of Spirit are
-fond of making choice of for their
-Studies, excites them to uncleanness
-infinitely beyond Ignorance; and
-that the want of Education should
-occasion such an invincible Bashfulness,
-as to deter a Person from looking
-on a Woman, is such an imposition
-upon the illiterate part of Mankind,
-which make up at least three
-Parts in four of the Creation, that
-nothing can be like it, when we consider
-that the Enjoyment of a Woman
-is so natural, that no bounds of
-Shame will confine it, and that Persons
-in all other Respects modest,
-have a strong propensity to copulation,
-and cannot conquer this passion,
-like others more visible to the World,
-by Shame or any other means.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_7'>7</span>Shame I take to be more a defect
-in Nature, and want of Resolution
-to act in Publick, than to discourage
-the private Amours of Youth, which
-by a due management may be easily
-carried on with sufficient secrecy:
-And we oftentimes find a bashful
-Person more inclinable to Vice than
-the Man of assurance, tho’ he supports
-the Character with more Hipocrisy;
-his Intrigues are carried on
-with an entire secrecy, and he can
-enter upon his Lewdness with an air
-of Gravity and Innocence, when the
-Sinner of Resolution as frankly owns
-his Experience, as he commits the
-Crime. But to go on with this Author,
-in page 17. He says, it is the
-general Opinion, that the shameless
-are the worst of People, yet shame
-when ill plac’d, has often wrought
-worse Effects, than the reverse alone
-has been able to produce. When a
-Bastard Infant is found Dead, and
-the Mother, lately deliver’d without
-Witness, is not able to prove either
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_8'>8</span>that she had made Provision for it,
-or during her pregnancy imparted
-the secret to another, besides the Father,
-our <i>English</i> Law, without any
-other Evidence, presumes the Woman
-to have murder’d the Child.
-From whence it is evident the Legislators
-must have suppos’d that
-some Women may have cruelty enough
-to commit the most unnatural
-Murder of all, and at the same
-time want Courage to bear shame.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>This penetrating Author does not
-consider, that ’tis not so much the
-want of Courage to bear a present
-shame, as to prevent a future expence
-in the maintaining and breeding up
-a Child, which most commonly occasions
-these unnatural Murders; and
-where a Crime of this Nature can
-be perpetrated with secrecy, so that
-the guilty Persons may come off with
-impunity, I take it that in all Cases
-the incumbrance is more consider’d
-than the shame.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_9'>9</span>I am not of his Opinion in
-Page 18. that Women are equally
-immodest with Men, and that
-Custom and Education only prevents
-their shewing it. For in the Infancy
-of Children, before the force of Education
-can possibly take place, or sense
-prevail, as a Guide to their Actions,
-we frequently find an abounding
-Modesty in the Female, and a large
-share of Boldness in the Male, produc’d
-from the same Loins, and this I
-have observ’d is generally the Case,
-which can proceed from nothing but
-Nature.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>And in Page 19. says this Author,
-if Children were strictly forbid never
-to touch their Eyes or Nose, but
-with their Handkerchiefs, and that
-only upon very urgent Necessities;
-if likewise they saw every Body comply
-with this Custom, and it was
-counted abominable to touch them
-with their naked Hands, I can’t see
-why this might not be as shocking
-to them when grown up, as now the
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span>most guilty Denudations are to well
-bred People. Now this curious Observation
-upon the efficacy of Custom
-being introduc’d in a Paragraph treating
-of Modesty and Chastity, I appeal
-to all Persons of any sense or
-discernment, whether it does not imply,
-that all Modesty and Virtue is
-establish’d only by Custom, and whether
-it does not entirely destroy the
-notion of an innate Principle. This
-concludes his first Chapter, and I
-take it to be very evident, that under
-a Cloak of Divinity, this Author
-slily propagates Doctrines fatal to
-Religion, and highly reflecting on
-the Reputations of the Virtuous.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Chap. II. Page 25. In Women, he
-says, Self-pollution, if frequently practis’d,
-relaxes and spoils the retentive
-Faculty, occasions the <i>Fluor Albus</i>, an
-obnoxious, as well as perplexing illness
-attending that Sex, which upon
-account of the Womb, may draw
-on a whole Legion of Diseases; among
-other disorders, it makes them
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span>look pale, and those who are not of
-a good Complexion, swarthy and
-hagged. It frequently is the cause
-of Hysterick Fits, and sometimes by
-draining away all the radical Moisture
-causes Consumptions. But what it
-more often produces than either, is
-Barrenness, a misfortune very afflictive
-to them, because seldom to be redress’d;
-He seems to make very
-little difference between the fatal
-Consequences of Self-pollution in
-either of the Sexes, when it must
-be allow’d to be great, on duly considering
-the situation of the parts;
-the Male can with abundantly more
-ease effect a titillation on his external
-Testicles, than the Female facilitate
-the least pleasure in her Womb; and
-as the difficulty is greater, it must
-deter a constant practice, and consequently
-not be attended with Symptoms,
-equally direful. And I doubt
-not, but this Author would much
-rather see a Legion of Gallants waiting
-upon a Female, than one single
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_12'>12</span>act of Self-pollution, his Interest being
-more nearly concern’d in the
-vending of his Venereal Medicines.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Agreeable to this, in Page 46.
-Treating of Repentance, he goes on,
-it is not enough for Youth to renounce
-their Crime, without renouncing likewise
-all the approaches to it. All the
-several species of Impurity, and the
-defilements of either Body or Mind,
-all lewd Actions, wanton Glances,
-impure Thoughts and Desires, together
-with such familiarities as expose
-to Temptations, all obscene Discourse
-or Expressions, and which
-are contrary to Chastity. It is true
-this Renunciation may appear difficult
-at first, and will occasion no
-small trouble to those that have contracted
-a vicious Habit, of giving
-themselves up to all sorts of Passions:
-But People must couragiously resolve
-to overcome themselves, it being far
-better to deny themselves in those
-Things, and to cross their own Inclinations
-for a time, than by pursuing
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span>them to perish eternally. <i>It is
-profitable that one of <span class='normal'>their</span> Members
-should perish, and not that <span class='normal'>their</span>
-whole Body should be cast into Hell.</i>
-The tacking of this Quotation
-from Scripture, by a dispenser of
-Medicines, pretending only to
-cure Venereal Maladies, seems very
-plain and demonstrable to be
-done with a design of increasing
-Whoredom and Fornication, at the
-same time he pretends to lash the
-Crime of Self-pollution; what he
-can otherwise mean by the perishing
-of one <i>Member</i>, is to me a mystery;
-and in many other parts of his Treatise
-he slily insinuates Notions and
-Comparisons no way coherent, to
-promote his Profession of Quackism.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>In Page 54. After he has inserted
-a pretended Letter from a Young
-Gentleman in the Country, setting
-forth the dreadful Miseries he labour’d
-under thro’ a frequent practice
-of Self-pollution, <i>viz.</i> repeating
-it eight Times an hour; our Author
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_14'>14</span>solemnly declares, that he concluded
-this Letter with requesting
-his Advice, and informing him that
-he never carnally knew any Person
-(I suppose meaning neither Man nor
-Woman) or defil’d himself otherwise,
-than by Self-pollution. Setting aside
-the very great suspicion of this, and
-the rest of the Letters in this Treatise
-being forg’d, there being no
-Names of the Writers, to whom
-directed, or any Dates to them, the
-Author Acts very inconsistently, in
-not setting forth the conclusion of
-the Letter relating to carnal knowledge
-in the Letter it self, but instead
-thereof, he imposes upon the World,
-his own Affirmation, as the only
-Authority. If he be himself the Author
-of those Letters, as I suppose
-he may, indeed it has equal sanction
-from his own Mouth deliver’d at another
-time, but if he be not the Inventer
-of those Bundles of Nonsense,
-certainly the Genuine Letter ought
-to be inserted verbatim to the end.
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span>And why he mentions that part of
-the Letter at all, unless it be with a
-secret Design of propagating other
-uncleanness more detestable as it
-brings a double Guilt, I cannot well
-understand, since he no where takes
-notice of the calamities attending
-Whoredom and Fornication, tho’
-the Crimes are often repeated.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Towards the Conclusion of this
-Treatise, in Page 74. The more easily
-to impose upon the publick, a solemn
-Declaration is made, that he neither,
-has, or ever design’d to have the
-least Interest or share in the Profits,
-that now are, or hereafter may accrue
-from the sale of the Medicines;
-this seems to be an Evasion equally
-contriv’d to any of the foregoing;
-is it not easy to imagine, that,
-(tho’ his Performance is compos’d
-of stupidity) he is not himself the Author,
-even of that? And that this
-is not his Declaration, but that of
-the Writer of his insipid Treatise;
-and whether this be not a natural
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_16'>16</span>Construction, I submit to the Determination
-of all impartial Readers.
-There are several other Fallacies and
-Impostures, which might be trac’d
-through his trifling Performance,
-but I shall content my self with the
-particulars I have already examin’d:
-And as in Page 63. He mentions the
-Advice of <i>Boccalini</i>, given as an
-Antidote against Whoredom, <i>viz.</i>
-that Persons that way inclin’d should
-carry about with them, a well
-drawn Picture, of the most perfect
-and faultless Beauty that ever appear’d
-in Flesh and Blood, pencil’d
-over again with rotten Teeth, blear
-Eyes, and Noseless; and that whenever
-Desires of the Flesh stir, they
-would take a sober View of it, and
-seriously consider what they are about
-to do, and the Consequences, which
-no doubt would damp their Inclinations.
-I shall insert some particulars
-of this nature, which will give
-a more lively Idea of the Folly and
-Madness, and more effectually deter
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_17'>17</span>a pursuit of carnal Pleasures from
-Sir <i>Roger L’Estrange</i>’s Translation
-of <em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Quevedo</span></em>’s Visions.</p>
-
-<p class='c010'>In the fifth Vision of the World,
-a Dialogue is begun between a
-Young Libertine, and a grave Old
-Gentleman; ‘says the Libertine,
-there past by a Lady of Pleasure,
-of so excellent a Shape, and Garb,
-that it was impossible to see her
-without a Passion for her, and no
-less impossible to look upon any
-Thing else so long as she was to
-be seen: They that had seen her
-once, were to see her no more:
-for she turn’d her Face still to new
-Comers: Her Motion was graceful
-and free, one while she’d stare
-ye full in the Eyes, under colour
-of opening her Hood, to set it in
-better order: By and by she’d steal
-a look at ye with one Eye, and a
-side Face, from the corner of her
-Vizor; like a Witch that’s afraid
-to be known when she comes from
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_18'>18</span>a Catterwal; and then out comes
-the delicate Hand, and discovers
-the more delicious Neck and
-Breasts, to adjust the Handkerchief
-or the Scarf; or to remove some
-other grievance that made her Ladyship
-uneasy. Her Hair was most
-artificially dispos’d into careless
-Rings; and the best Red and
-White in Nature was in her
-Cheeks; if that of her Lips and
-Teeth did not exceed it. In a
-word, all she look’d upon were her
-own; the Old Man opposing this
-Romance; says the Young Gentleman,
-he must be either Blind or
-Barbarous that’s proof against the
-Charms of so divine a Beauty;
-nor would any but a Sot let slip
-the blessed opportunity, of so fair
-an Encounter; that he that has her,
-has all that’s lovely or desirable in
-Nature: What lightning does she
-carry in her Eyes! What Charms and
-Chains in her Looks and Motions,
-for the very Souls of her Beholders!
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_19'>19</span>Was ever any Thing so clear, as
-her Forehead? Or so black as her
-Eye-brows? One would swear that
-her Complection had taken a
-Tincture of Vermillion and Milk:
-And that Nature had brought her
-into the World with Pearl and
-Rubies in her Mouth, to speak all
-in little, she’s the Master-piece of
-the Creation, worthy of infinite
-praise, and equal to our largest
-Desires and Imaginations.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>‘Here the Old Gentleman interrupted
-the Young Libertine, and
-told him he was a Man of much
-Wonder and small Experience,
-and deliver’d over to the Spirit
-of Folly and Blindness. The Truth
-of it is, said he, that this prodigious
-Beauty of yours, hires all by
-the day; and if you did but see
-this Puppet taken to pieces, you
-would find her little else but Paint
-and Plaister. To begin her Anatomy
-at the head; you must know
-that the Hair she wears, is borrow’d
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_20'>20</span>of a Tire-Woman, for her
-own was blown off by an unlucky
-Wind from the coast of <i>Naples</i>;
-or if she has any left, she keeps
-it private, as a Memorial of her
-Antiquity; she is beholden to the
-Pencil for her Eye-brows and Complection:
-And upon the whole
-matter she’s but an old Picture refresht;
-all that you see of her that’s
-good, comes from distill’d Waters,
-Essences, Powders, and the like;
-and to see the washing of her Face
-would fright the Devil: She abounds
-in Pomanders, sweet Waters,
-Spanish Pockets, perfum’d
-Drawers; and all little enough
-to qualifie the poisonous Whiffs she
-sends from her Toes and Armpits,
-which would otherwise out stink
-Ten Thousand Pole-Cats: She
-cannot chuse but kiss well, for her
-Lips are perpetually bath’d in Oil
-and Grease; and he that embraces
-her, shall find the better half of her
-the Taylors, and only a stuffing of
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_21'>21</span>Cotton, and Canvas to supply the
-defects of her Body. What do
-you think of your ador’d Beauty
-now?’</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>And in another place of the
-same Author, the following account
-is given of a Visit to ill-favour’d
-Women; ‘some had their
-Faces so pounc’d and speckled, as
-if they had been scarified, and
-newly past the cupping Glass; with
-a World of little Plaisters, long,
-round, square; and briefly cut out
-into such variety, that it would
-have posed a good Mathematician
-to have found out another Figure;
-and you would have sworn, that
-they had been either at Cats-play
-or Cuffs: Others were scraping their
-Faces with pieces of Glass; tearing
-up their Eye-brows by the Roots
-like mad; and some that had none
-to tear, were fetching out of their
-black Boxes, such as they could
-get or make: Others were powdering
-and curling the false Locks, or fastning
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span>their new Ivory Teeth in the
-place of their old Ebony ones:
-Some were chewing Limmon-peal
-or Cinnamon, to countenance a
-foul Breath; and raising themselves
-upon their Ciopines, that their
-View might be the fairer, and their
-fall the deeper: Others were quarrelling
-with their Looking-glasses,
-for shewing them such Hags countenances;
-and cursing the <i>State</i> of
-<i>Venice</i>, for entertaining no better
-Workmen; some with their Hogs-grease
-and Pomatum, were sleeking
-and polishing their Faces; and indeed,
-their Fore-heads were bright
-and shining, though there were neither
-Suns nor Stars in that Firmament:
-And others were daubing
-one another, to take away the
-Heats and Buboes; so far does a
-Woman’s Wit and Invention carry
-her, to her own Destruction.’
-And in another Vision lewd Women
-are justly call’d, <i>the Devil’s
-Factresses</i>.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_23'>23</span>This is a small Digression from
-my Subject, but as I was naturally
-lead into it, by the Treatise I have
-been examining, and it may tend to
-the discouragement of unlawful Pleasures,
-I hope it is excuseable. I
-now proceed to shew that the Author
-is mistaken in the Sin of <em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Onan</span></em>,
-and to demonstrate what was really
-his Crime.</p>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
-  <h2 class='c005'><em class='gesperrt'>CHAP.</em> I.<br> <span class='large'><i>Of</i> <em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Onan</span></em>’s <i>Crime; and the Sin of</i> <span class='sc'>Self-Pollution</span>.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class='drop-capa0_0_6 c006'>The Text of Scripture runs
-thus. <i>And <span class='normal'>Judah</span> said unto
-<span class='normal'><em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Onan</span></em></span>, Go in unto thy Brother’s
-Wife, and Marry her, and raise up
-Seed to thy Brother. And <span class='normal'><em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Onan</span></em></span>
-knew that the Seed should not be his;
-and it came to pass, when he went in
-unto his Brother’s  Wife, that he spilled
-it on the Ground, lest that he should
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_24'>24</span>give Seed to his Brother.</i> 38. Chap.
-Genesis, Verses 8, 9, 10.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Though some Authors seem to
-make <em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Onan</span></em>’s chief Crime to be
-Self-pollution, yet the learned Bishop
-<i>Patrick</i>, in his Commentary upon
-the <i>38th Chapter <span class='normal'>of</span> Genesis</i>, is of a
-contrary Opinion, <i>viz.</i></p>
-
-<p class='c011'>‘Verse 8. <i>Go in unto thy Brother’s
-Wife.</i> This was an ancient
-Custom in force by the Law of
-<i>Moses</i>, which only exacted what
-had been formerly practis’d, <i>viz.</i>
-that when a Man died without
-issue, his next Brother should
-Marry his Wife. <i>Deut. 25. 5.</i></p>
-
-<p class='c011'>‘<i>And raise up Seed to thy Brother</i>;
-is meant preserve thy Brother’s
-Name and Family, by begetting
-a Child, which may be accounted
-his, and inherit his Estate.
-For so the Law was, that the first
-Born of such a Match, was not to
-be look’d upon, as a Child of him
-that begot him; but as his Brother’s,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_25'>25</span>who was the Mother’s first
-Husband; though all the following
-Children were to be his own.</p>
-
-<p class='c011'>‘Verse 9. <em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Onan</span></em> <i>knew that the
-Seed should not be accounted his in
-the first Born, but his Brothers.</i>
-And least the Child should be born
-in the Name of his Brother; v. 10.
-<i>The Thing which he did displeased
-the Lord.</i> This made the Sin the
-more heinous, that he acted against
-the divine Promise made to <i>Abraham</i>,
-concerning the multiplying
-of his Seed.</p>
-
-<p class='c011'>‘The contract of Marriage was
-so understood in those Days, that
-if the Husband died without Issue,
-the Woman was oblig’d to Marry
-his next Brother, and as long as any
-of his Brethren remain’d, they
-were bound to Marry his Wife,
-and preserve their Brother’s  Memory,
-or solemnly renounce, to
-their very great Infamy. This
-was so well known, that no new
-contract was enjoyn’d in such a
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_26'>26</span>Case; for the first Husband being
-dead, she and the next Brother
-were Man and Wife, without any
-farther Agreement or Ceremony,
-by Virtue of the Original Law.’</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The learned Prelate in this Comment,
-omits mentioning the spilling of
-the Seed, but it may be rationally presum’d
-he did it not so much out of a
-regard to Modesty, as its being a
-trifling part of the Charge against
-<em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Onan</span></em>; since he determines <em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Onan</span></em>’s
-great Crime to be his not complying
-with the Law of <i>Moses</i>, in the
-Marriage of his Brothers Wife; tho’
-he adds, that his Sin was the more
-heinous for his acting contrary to
-the promise made to <i>Abraham</i>, in
-relation to the multiplying of his
-Seed.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>What provok’d <em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Onan</span></em> to the
-Breach of this Law, I take to be
-evident, was his not being allow’d
-the Reputation of begetting the first
-Child on his Brothers Wife, which
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_27'>27</span>in all Marriages is attended with
-more satisfaction, than any of the
-future Progeny.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>There might be other probable
-Reasons given for <em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Onan</span></em>’s breaking
-this Law of <i>Moses</i>; as envy to the
-Memory of his deceas’d Brother,
-dislike or prejudice to his Wife, <i>&#38;c.</i>
-But to Comment a little farther upon
-the 38 <i>Chapter</i> of <i>Genesis</i>, in respect
-to <em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Onan</span></em>’s Crime, it may not be
-amiss to examine some preceding
-Verses.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Verse. 2. <i>And</i> Judah <i>saw there,
-a Daughter of a certain</i> Cananite,
-<i>whose Name was</i> Shuah; <i>and he
-took her, and went in unto her.
-And she conceiv’d, and bare a Son,
-and he call’d his Name</i> Er. By
-this, and many other parts of the
-Scripture it is apparent, that the
-Words <i>going in</i> unto a Woman,
-were meant in those times actual
-Copulation, so that when <em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Onan</span></em>
-<i>went in</i> unto his Brother’s Wife, it
-must be constru’d, that he began
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_28'>28</span>the pleasure of Matrimony, though,
-he did not perfect it by reason he spilt
-his Seed on the Ground; that is,
-he withdrew from his Brothers
-Wife, and did not consummate the
-Marriage; which displeas’d the Lord,
-wherefore he slew him.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Agreeable to this in some measure,
-is the modern Custom amongst
-Persons of distinction in their amorous
-Intrigues; who after they are
-actually ingag’d in the pleasures of
-<i>Venus</i>, by a sudden ereption of the
-Privities, separate from the Female
-the instant they feel the Titillation
-in the extreme Parts, and before the
-<i>Emissio Seminis</i>; to prevent the effects
-of a teeming Womb, which would
-not only occasion a considerable expence,
-but expose the Female, and
-very much impair the Beauty of her
-Form. And of this nature, I take
-the Sin of <em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Onan</span></em> to be, in relation
-to his spilling his Seed on the Ground,
-though not committed with the same
-design.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_29'>29</span>These particulars fully shew, that
-<em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Onan</span></em>’s Sin was not Self-pollution,
-as laid down by the Author of
-<em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Onania</span></em>, and for that he had the
-Assistance of his Brother’s Wife. I
-come now to the Sin of Self-pollution,
-and begin with the Causes.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>I am by no means of the Author’s
-Opinion, that Self-pollution is entirely
-occasion’d by Ignorance, Secrecy,
-Shame, or other particular
-Causes mention’d in his Treatise, as
-I have already observ’d, with my
-Reasons confuting the same; to
-which I may add, this farther, that
-few, or no Persons can be ignorant,
-that Self-pollution is a Sin. I look upon
-it to be more a natural Distemper occasion’d
-by a vicious ferment of the
-Blood, than to proceed from any of the
-Causes set forth by the Author of Self-pollution,
-and that this may be agitated
-by lewd Company, Obscene Pictures,
-<i>&#38;c.</i> It is impossible, that ignorance can
-increase this Crime, when it is esteem’d
-the Mother of Devotion, and in my
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_30'>30</span>Opinion, the firmest limits to Chastity.
-Without some experience, no
-considerable progress can be made,
-and ’tis the highest inconsistency to
-call an experienc’d Person ignorant.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Other Causes of Self-pollution, I
-take it may be justly attributed to
-the very great hazards Young Gentlemen
-are constantly expos’d to with
-Women of the Town (not that I
-allow any unlawful desires) for tho’
-the Crime of Self-pollution be in its
-nature heinous, and the Consequences
-are to be fear’d by all considerate Persons,
-yet the Sin doth not in any respect
-seem so dreadful to vigorous Youth,
-as that of Whoredom, and the Calamities
-attending, are generally more
-remote in prospect. A Clap or a
-Pox will immediately ensue in the most
-terrible manner (the Beauty of the
-Front, and the most valuable parts
-of the Body, being particularly in
-danger) in the case of Copulation
-with an unsound Woman, when the
-consequences of Self-pollution only
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_31'>31</span>steal on you by degrees, and will
-be a considerable space before the
-direful Effects shall be visible. This
-I take to be a principal Cause of Self-pollution,
-especially where Persons
-have suffer’d in their Intrigues with
-lewd Women; and what encreases
-it in this case, is the pernicious Salt
-of a transmissive Nature, oftentimes
-remaining in the center of the Blood,
-upon taking unbounded quantities of
-Mercurial Preparations; some Young
-Gentlemen have confess’d to me, that
-after the cure of the secret Disease by
-Quack-physicians, their Inclinations
-have encreas’d, with the number of
-their venerial Maladies, which can
-proceed from no other cause than a
-pollution of the Blood occasion’d by
-the Dregs of ill prepar’d Medicines.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>I have known two very remarkable
-Cases of this kind in the Country.
-One was a half witted young Fellow,
-being with artifice entic’d to the act of
-Fornication with an unclean Woman,
-who after a cure of the Disease he
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_32'>32</span>receiv’d by her, was so strangely addicted
-to Self-pollution, that at length
-there was far greater difficulty to
-preserve his impair’d Carcass, than
-in curing of his nauseous Distemper,
-notwithstanding, he had it with severity:
-He would sit down upon
-the Floor, and with Eyes lift up violate
-Nature in a seeming Transport,
-and oftentimes repeat this unnatural
-Sin, with an uncommon pleasure:
-At last he confess’d it, and on a private
-Examination declar’d, that he
-never had any inclination to Self-pollution,
-before he had receiv’d his
-venerial Injury, and largely taken of
-the Surgeons Preparations, tho’ this
-Woman was not the first that he had
-carnally known. The other Case
-within my knowledge, was, that of a
-rakish Young Gentleman, who having
-run through his Fortune in Extravagancies,
-particularly on the fair Sex,
-when he could no longer splendidly
-subsist, or afford the expence of unlawful
-Pleasures, being perpetually tormented
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_33'>33</span>with a violent inclination
-to Women; at last after a long
-continuance of Self-pollution, he
-couragiously Castrated himself, as the
-only cure of his vicious Appetite. But
-the next News I heard, as indeed
-I expected, was, that he had with
-equal resolution shot himself through
-the Head.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>’Tis very certain, that Persons in
-mean Circumstances, are thereby in
-many Respects render’d unable to
-pursue their darling Vices; but
-where the Principles are vitiated, or
-the Passions prevalent, there is no
-Shield of Self-defence against ill
-Actions: The Person wholly void
-of Honesty, will commit Thefts and
-Robberies upon the Persons of others
-to enrich himself; and the lustful
-Person will satisfy his Brutal inclinations
-by Friction, or other abominable
-Enjoyments, for want of ability,
-to purchase more acceptable Crimes:
-And as the want of Circumstances
-is many times a cause of Self-pollution,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_34'>34</span>so the Person in possession of a
-large Fortune, is frequently guilty
-of the Sin of Whoredom, accompanied
-with more dreadful Consequences,
-and Nature only, under the
-severest Discipline, must in all Cases
-regulate the lustful Appetite.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The design of providence, for the
-preservation of Mankind in a State
-of Innocence, is visible throughout
-all the works of the Creation; there
-is no condition of Life, but a Person
-may go thro’ free from Guilt and Infamy;
-and particularly in Uncleanness,
-Nocturnal-pollution proceeding
-meerly from Nature without force,
-is certainly intended to correct lustful
-Inclinations; but when it arises from
-vicious contemplations, and impure
-Ideas conceiv’d in the Mind, it is a
-sinful Act, though not equally criminal
-to Self-pollution.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Pollution by the hand of a Woman,
-is always attended with more
-fatal consequences to the Man than
-any other; the impure Thoughts
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_35'>35</span>are more strongly impress’d by the
-presence of the Female, than
-its possible in her absence, and the
-imaginations so heighten’d by her
-Touch, as to commit the greater violence
-on Nature. By this, the parts
-are more considerably strain’d, and
-their natural Strength and Vigour
-abated. This naturally leads me to
-the various ways of Self-pollution in
-wanton Females, which are so intolerable,
-that Modesty forbids a
-particular Description. I shall only
-mention, that a Lascivious Woman,
-by the use of a pleasurable Toy, and
-an injection of Milk, or other Moisture,
-may possibly continue Self-pollution
-for a longer space than copulation
-with a Man, no Spirits being drain’d
-or Strength exhausted by the means
-herein applied; and ’tis reported
-that some lewd Females will commence
-this vile practice, before their
-Privities are fledg’d with Maturity.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_36'>36</span>To demonstrate the consequences
-of a lewd Conversation in regard
-to the Crime of Self-pollution, I
-shall here present you with an ample
-account of a Club of Young Gentlemen,
-I have been inform’d,
-was not many Years ago establish’d
-in, or near <i>Long-Acre</i>; the most
-abominable Nursery of Lewdness
-and Debauchery, perhaps, that ever
-was heard of in any Country, unless
-it be in the remote parts of <i>Europe</i>
-amongst the vile Sects of incestuous
-<i>Adamites</i>, whom Histories
-mention, when the Words <i>increase
-and multiply</i>, were repeated in their
-religious Service (which was very
-common) they immediately extinguish’d
-their Candles, and promiscuously
-mix’d in carnal Enjoyments.
-This Club ’tis said, was held thrice
-a Week at the House of a noted
-Victualler, who was a Stranger to
-the Actions of his Guests for a considerable
-time; they had a Supper
-and plenty of strong Liquors constantly
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_37'>37</span>provided to their no small
-Expence; they were govern’d by a
-President of the Night, who was
-commonly elected after Supper, and
-the whole Assembly struggled for
-this Honour: The method of Election
-was thus; every one according
-to his Seniority advanc’d
-himself in turn upon a high Joint-stool
-plac’d against a Wall, and with
-a sort of Emulation, there practis’d
-Self-pollution as long, as his strength
-would permit, and he that repeated the
-Sin the greatest number of times,
-was immediately declar’d their Chief
-for the next time of meeting: And
-to facilitate their unnatural Pleasures;
-their Eatings generally consisted of
-strong Soops, Gravies, Fish, Jellies,
-and other provocatives to Lust; and
-their whole Conversation turn’d on
-their Excellency and Perfection in this
-most detestable Crime. This Account
-I have had of this Club, with
-this Addition, that a Member of it
-might be known by his spindle Shanks,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_38'>38</span>fallen Jaws, and pale wither’d Countenance,
-but as it is not within my
-own knowledge, I cannot aver it to
-be fact, and to me it seems so monstrous
-as not to be credited in the
-whole, what ever it may in part;
-however I thought fit to insert it,
-to render the Crime the more odious
-and hateful to all.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>And to this I may add other pernicious
-Consequences proceeding from
-this Crime, as an irrecoverable Impotency,
-which renders a Man inanimate,
-intoxicates his reason, and
-debases Nature, so as to occasion the
-<i>Diabetis</i> and other fatal lingering Diseases;
-for the aliment of the Blood
-is so far vitiated and impair’d by a
-frequent repetition of this Sin, that
-it is wholly unable to perform its
-office of Circulation with any regularity.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Thus I have detected the several
-Fallacies, Inconsistencies, and Impositions
-of the Author of <em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Onania</span></em>;
-prov’d that he is mistaken in the
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_39'>39</span>Crime of <em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Onan</span></em>; that the design,
-of his Book was to encourage Lewdness,
-and thereby promote the sale
-of destructive Medicines, which
-many times occasion a conflux of
-Humours, and incurable Diseases;
-shewn that Quack Preparations promote
-the very Sin he with views
-of Interest pretends to discountenance,
-set forth the real Crime of
-<em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Onan</span></em>, and the Causes and fatal
-Consequences of Self-pollution: I
-now proceed to the heinousness of
-the <em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Sin</span></em>.</p>
-
-<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_40'>40</span></div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id001'>
-<img src='images/i_040.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'>
-</div>
-
-<div>
-  <h2 class='c005'><em class='gesperrt'>CHAP.</em> II.<br> <span class='large'><i>The</i> <em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Sin</span></em> <i>of</i> <em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Self-Pollution</span></em>, <i>the means to avoid it, and to attain</i> <em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Chastity</span></em>.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-</div>
-
-<p class='drop-capa0_0_6 c006'>The Learned <i>Ostervald</i> treating
-of the several Species of
-Uncleanness, says it is easy to discern
-‘that impure Actions are forbidden
-for two Reasons. First, because
-they are likely means of carrying
-Men to the grosser Crime: People
-don’t ordinarily arrive at the
-height of Wickedness all at once,
-but by certain Steps and Degrees.
-They begin with what they think
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_41'>41</span>lawful; they accustom themselves
-to violate the rules of Chastity in
-such Instances, as they perswade
-themselves, can have no great hurt
-in them: But then from these lesser
-Offences, they proceed to others,
-whose Wickedness they cannot but
-be sensible of; and so at length
-they fall into the more horrid
-Crime. But in the second place,
-though we should never come thus
-far, and our unchaste Actions should
-never push us on to the utmost
-Licentiousness, they however defile
-the Soul; they increase the
-inclination to Uncleanness, and
-withdraw from God; as a very
-little Observation will inform those,
-who allow themselves in these sort
-of Liberties.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>‘To impure Actions, may be subjoin’d
-such Looks, as are contrary
-to Chastity, inasmuch, as a Man
-may be guilty also of Sin in this
-respect, whether in beholding such
-Objects, or in reading such Books,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_42'>42</span>as may be apt to beget unlawful
-Desires. It is an undoubted Truth,
-that impure Passions are chiefly
-rais’d and inflam’d by the sight,
-and that it is impossible to continue
-Chast without a diligent care to
-govern the Eyes, and to turn them
-away from whatsoever might seduce
-the Heart. Let but any one enquire
-into the Objects I am speaking
-of, and the Impressions they
-are apt to make upon the Mind,
-and this will presently convince
-him of the Evil and Danger of
-suffering his Eyes to dwell upon
-them: These Objects pollute the
-Imagination, filling it with lustful
-Thoughts; and it is only through
-the Temptation of sensuality, that
-any can fix their Eyes upon them,
-or take any manner of pleasure in
-them. The holy Scriptures sufficiently
-caution against these undue
-Liberties; it was by the sight
-that <i>David</i> was entic’d to commit
-Iniquity: And <i>Job</i>, who liv’d at
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_43'>43</span>a time when moral Chastity was
-less known, than it has been since,
-had yet learn’d, that the principal
-Duty of Chastity was to regulate
-the Sight.’</p>
-
-<p class='c010'>There are many Things conducive
-to Chastity, as the pious example
-of Superiours, a Godly Conversation,
-Books of Devotion, a firm Resolution,
-Temperance, <i>&#38;c.</i> And at
-all Seasons, Persons ought to use
-their utmost Endeavours for overcoming
-their inclinations to Impurity;
-but there are some times, and
-opportunities, wherein it is done far
-more easily than at others. In matters
-of Salvation, as well, as in all
-others, a great deal depends upon
-a choice of proper Seasons: No-body,
-but must have found, that he is
-not always equally well disposed:
-Upon some occasions a thing will
-appear almost insuperable, which yet
-will not be so at another time: Take
-a Man given to any particular passion,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_44'>44</span>and in the instant, when he is
-seiz’d and transported with it: All
-you can say to the contrary, will
-make no Impression upon him; yet
-take the same Person out of his passion,
-when his Blood is cold,
-and you will see him very different.
-The Impure have their intervals,
-and these longer or shorter, and
-more or less frequent, according as
-the Habit they have contracted is
-stronger or weaker; there are some,
-over whom this passion has so great
-an Ascendency, that they are almost
-perpetually employ’d by it; yet such
-as these have some more favourable
-Moments, wherein they are capable
-of reflection, and wherein their Passion
-allows them some respite without
-opposition.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>But there is nothing to be done
-without Resolution and Confidence;
-and we may be assur’d, that God’s
-enjoining of Chastity, is an incontestable
-proof, that People may attain
-it: It is by no means to be presum’d,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_45'>45</span>that our great Creator, who
-is all Justice, would under pain of
-Damnation command the observance
-of such Duties, as he knows to be
-entirely out of our power: No, there
-are means of performing what he injoins,
-not attended with unconquerable
-difficulties: And as it is he, who
-has ordered these means; so has he
-engaged himself to second them
-with his blessing, whenever we
-commence a sincere obedience to his
-Laws.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>It would be strange to find any
-make a Question of this; but it must
-be granted, that as this Duty is not
-to be acquir’d with equal ease at all
-times, so it is not alike easy to all
-sorts of Persons; and some find considerable
-trouble in it; and so it is
-in all the other Duties of Morality:
-There are some, who whether from
-their natural Tempers and Constitutions,
-or from the bad Habits
-they have contracted, are violently
-press’d on to certain Passions, and
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_46'>46</span>must encounter Self-difficulties before
-they can make the least conquest
-over them: An eagerness of Temper,
-and fullness of Heat, with an
-ill Habit too long indulg’d, will
-render Persons so prone to anger,
-that they must be very diligent and
-watchful, and always upon their
-guard, or they will not be able to
-avoid it; but it will very ill become
-these to offer this for their excuse;
-for by this means, there is no Person
-but would be able to vindicate
-himself: So in a temporal Sense,
-were Criminals allow’d to plead a
-strong inclination and proneness of
-Nature, to the committing of
-Crimes, there would be no such thing
-as Justice or Government in the
-World.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Tho’ many Persons are strongly
-press’d to Impurity, yet it cannot
-be concluded, from hence, that there
-are no methods of Preservation from
-this Passion: If they brought themselves
-into this State by their own
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_47'>47</span>fault, and for want of using the
-means proper in order to Chastity,
-this is no Evidence that these means
-are not sufficient for their purpose:
-The Case is the same here, as if a
-Man had fallen into a dangerous Indisposition
-for not using certain Preservatives
-or Remedies, which does
-not shew that he had no means of
-preventing his Sickness, but only
-that he did not make a right use of
-them: Those who are entangled in
-this dangerous Passion, and whose
-return to Chastity appears very difficult,
-may yet be assur’d, that they
-may recover themselves: It is true,
-they may find it troublesome at first,
-but then they ought to remember,
-that it is but reasonable for them to
-cross their own Inclinations, and
-bear with some inconvenience to preserve
-themselves from fatal ruin: The
-trouble will daily lessen, and what
-at first seem’d insuperable, will become
-at length pleasant in the performance.
-There are certainly means
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_48'>48</span>of being Chast, and whosoever
-makes the Trial, will quickly find
-the benefit of them: As for those
-that will not use them, who will do
-nothing to fortify themselves, will
-not keep out of the way of Temptations,
-nor cross their vicious Inclinations
-in any thing; I confess it is
-my Opinion, that they will never attain
-any degree of Chastity, but then
-they have none but themselves to blame
-for it; it is their own fault, and not
-any defect in Religion, that they are
-in this Condition: And to such the
-Almighty has ordain’d a proper Remedy,
-whereby to avoid the excesses
-of the Flesh, which is <i>Marriage</i>.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Meditation is an excellent means
-to Purity, it excites and recalls into
-the Mind, divers good Reflections,
-and abates the force of Temptations:
-There is no matter of Religion and
-Piety, which may not be revolv’d
-in our Minds to advantage; and
-there are many particular Meditations,
-that have a peculiar Virtue
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_49'>49</span>for dissuading from pollution; such
-as the presence of our Creator, Death,
-Resurrection, Judgment, <i>&#38;c.</i> The
-thoughts of Death, which puts an
-end to all our Enjoyments here,
-must necessarily abate the allurements
-of sensual Pleasures. The
-thoughts of our Resurrection will
-force us to have a regard to Purity:
-And the thoughts of our Saviour’s
-Sufferings, are a powerful Motive,
-not to seek our own ease, and the
-satisfaction of our Senses in this
-World.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>One of the chief means of defence
-against Temptations to Impurity, is
-a distrust of our selves. This distrust
-proceeds from an Opinion and
-Sense of our own Weakness, and
-thereby a fear of being surpriz’d and
-ensnar’d by Temptations; distrust
-will produce Vigilance, which is a
-second means of defence against impure
-Thoughts. Persons ought to
-be very exact and scrupulous, as to
-every thing that leads to Impurity,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_50'>50</span>and not to take too great liberty
-under any vain pretences. Mortification
-and Exercise are very good
-guards against Pollution; Idleness
-makes People wanton and vicious,
-and High-feeding very much heightens
-unlawful Desires. Curiosity is
-frequently a cause of the wanderings
-of the Mind and Heart; and a desire
-of satisfying it, proceeding from
-a secret Passion, being a great occasion
-of Pollution, this also is to be
-guarded against: And lastly, when
-Persons are under any manner of
-Temptations, the instant they are
-sensible of impure Thoughts in the
-Soul, they should be strenuously resisted.
-The first reception of impure
-Thoughts into the Soul, shews
-them to be pleasing to it; and the
-longer they are entertain’d there,
-the more this Pleasure encreases;
-and when this Pleasure once prevails,
-the Man is no longer in a capacity
-to defend himself: And there is no
-surer way to prevent a Conflagration,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_51'>51</span>than by thoroughly extinguishing
-the first spark of Fire, on its immediate
-appearance.</p>
-
-<p class='c010'>Thus much for the means to avoid
-Impurity, and to attain Chastity, I
-shall conclude this part of my Treatise,
-with what Mr. <i>Ostervald</i> observes
-of the Sin of Uncleanness in
-general, and with a few Reflections
-of my own, which may be of
-service to those, who make Chastity
-a difficulty. ‘All Uncleanness is
-a palpable Violation of our Baptismal
-Covenant, wherein we have
-solemnly oblig’d our selves to renounce
-the Flesh (that is to say,
-all sensuality and voluptuousness)
-as well as the World and the Devil.
-For there is no living up to
-this Profession and Obligation,
-without being continually upon
-our guard against all those sinful
-Lusts, which we have thus renounc’d.
-And indeed, what an
-affront is it to God, and what vile
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_52'>52</span>Treachery and breach of Covenant,
-when Persons have thus given
-up their Names to Christ, and
-promis’d to obey his holy Laws;
-and in particular, to abstain from
-all Impurity, if they shall yet
-draw back, and professing to know
-the Almighty shall in works deny
-him, living in wantonness and
-unlawful Pleasures, like the Gentiles,
-who knew him not, or rather
-in such detestable Lewdnesses,
-as the Wiser amongst these would
-have abominated? We cannot
-doubt, but that we are all strictly
-engag’d to cleanse our selves from
-Filthiness, both of Flesh and
-Spirit, and to perfect Holiness.
-And what a monstrous Incongruity
-must it be, for such to indulge
-themselves in any carnal and sensual
-Immoralities, in direct opposition
-to the Vow, so solemnly made
-against them! This must necessarily
-argue a great Stupidity, and
-regardlessness of their Duty, which
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_53'>53</span>is sufficiently blameable in any,
-but in Christians, who pretend
-to tread in their Saviour’s Steps,
-and to obey all his Commandments,
-is most exceedingly provoking.’</p>
-
-<p class='c010'>Though the Sin of Uncleanness
-be heinous in it self, as appears by
-what has been said, and is oftentimes
-attended with a train of Crimes,
-as Lying, Quarrelling, and others of
-a flagitious Nature, yet are many Persons
-so estrang’d to Religion, and
-even to rational Ethicks, as to be entirely
-supine and negligent in the
-suppressing of Impure Cogitations;
-and on the contrary entertain them
-with indulgence; so that by degrees,
-illimitable Passions are establish’d,
-and the tide of Impurity, at last
-grows so strong and rapid, that it
-is not to be repell’d; whence all manner
-of Evils succeed.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Having Theologically discuss’d the
-several particulars relating to Self-pollution,
-and other Uncleanness:
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_54'>54</span>I come now to my last head, treating
-of <i>Generation</i>, and the sensitive
-Parts effecting it; but I would by no
-means have my Reader think, that
-I examine these particulars with a
-design to excite Persons to Lewdness,
-when my Intentions are only to
-shew the fineness and Beauty of
-the Parts, whereby will appear how
-easily they may be violated and
-impair’d by an unnatural use.</p>
-
-<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_55'>55</span></div>
-<div class='chapter'>
-
-<div  class='figcenter id001'>
-<img src='images/i_055.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'>
-</div>
-
-<div>
-  <h2 class='c005'><em class='gesperrt'>CHAP.</em> III.<br> <span class='large'><i>A <span class='normal'><em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Dissertation</span></em></span> upon <span class='normal'>Generation</span>; and of the <span class='normal'>Parts</span> administring thereunto.</i></span></h2>
-</div>
-
-</div>
-
-<p class='drop-capa0_0_6 c006'>I shall begin with the instruments
-of <i>Generation</i> in Men. All the
-parts of <i>Generation</i> merit the Title
-of noble Parts, as well as the Brain
-and the Heart; and some Authors
-give them the preference before
-the other Parts of the Body, upon
-this consideration, that they preserve
-the Species, and the others only keep
-up the Individuum.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_56'>56</span>The Yard is call’d by Physicians
-the <i>Membrum Virile</i>, because it distinguishes
-a Man from a Woman:
-It is plac’d at the lower and external
-part of the <i>Abdomen</i>, and is fasten’d
-to the <i>Os Pubis</i>. This Situation is
-the more commodious, for that it
-does not annoy any other part in
-the time of enjoyment.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>It has a very peculiar Substance,
-containing several Vessels, Muscles,
-Nerves, Arteries, <i>&#38;c.</i> Its Skin is
-finer than that of any other part,
-to give it a more exquisite sense. It
-has no Fat; for if it encreas’d in
-Flesh in proportion with the rest of
-the Body; it would not only be of
-too large a size, but become soft,
-unactive, and insensible; and would
-cloud the Sense necessary to excite
-the Passion.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The Yard performs its motions by
-virtue of four Muscles; two for Erection,
-and two for Ejaculation.
-These last squeeze the seminal Vesicles,
-and convey the Seed into the <i>Urethra</i>,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_57'>57</span>from whence it sallies out with great
-force: It is divided into its Body, and
-two Ends; as for its two extremities
-one of them is call’d the Glans, or
-head of the Yard; the other which
-is fastened to the Belly, is call’d the
-Root, and is surrounded with Hair,
-especially upon its upper part, which
-is call’d the <i>Pubis</i>.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The Glans, or head of the <i>Membrum
-Virile</i>, is the only fleshy part
-in the Yard; being soft and smooth,
-to prevent its hurting the Matrix of
-the Woman, and running in some
-measure to a point to facilitate its
-Entry: It is cover’d with a thin
-Membrane, which renders it sensible
-of the Titillation occasion’d by rubbing
-upon the Matrix; and in the
-time of Erection, the Spirits and
-Blood repair to it vigorously, when
-it swells and starts out of an uncommon
-length, assuming a lively red
-Colour; but upon the retreat of the
-Blood, it flaggs and  becomes pale
-and shrivell’d.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_58'>58</span>The <i>prepuce</i> is the loose Skin at
-the utmost end of the Yard, which
-stretches out and covers the Nut,
-or draws down, to uncover it, as there
-is occasion: In time of Erection,
-it will draw down the Yard a considerable
-way, the easier to enter
-in Copulation: ’Tis tied under the
-Nut, with a fine Ligament call’d
-the Bridle, which must be cut when
-it is to short, and draws the orifice
-of the Nut downwards, by reason
-it hinders the Ejaculation of the
-Seed in a straight Line. The Prepuce
-enlarges the pleasure in Copulation,
-especially of the Women.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The Yard has two Cavernous Bodies,
-one on each side, taking their
-rise from the lower part of the
-<i>Os Pubis</i>, and the Hip-bone, and
-these cavernous Bodies, or Nerves
-have two Substances, external and
-internal, the external one is thick,
-hard, and nervous, and the internal
-one, is spungy, thin, and fungous.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_59'>59</span>The Erection of the Yard is owing
-to these cavernous Bodies, which
-being fill’d with Spirits, swell and
-extend themselves: And the arterious
-Blood being poured into the
-cavernous Bodies effects the distension
-of the Yard, as its lankness is
-occasion’d by sending of that Blood
-through the Hypogastrick Veins.
-The spungy Substance of the cavernous
-Bodies, stops the Blood for some
-time, whereby an erection is forc’d.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>In all Enjoyments, the animal
-Spirits are rouz’d by fancy, which
-strikes the <i>Idea</i> of Pleasure, and
-when the Spirits are thus rais’d, they
-instantly repair to the Nerves of the
-Organs of <i>Generation</i>, and puff them
-up on mixing with the Blood, convey’d
-thither by the Arteries; and
-upon the mixture of these two, a
-Fermentation succeeds, whereby an
-Erection is effected.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The <i>Urethra</i> is a nervous Passage,
-extending from the neck of
-the Bladder, to the end of the Yard.
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_60'>60</span>It is a common passage for the Seed
-and Urine.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The Testicles are so call’d from
-the Latin Word <i>Testes</i>, as they witness
-the vigour of a Man. They
-are seated without the Abdomen,
-at the root of the Yard; and enclos’d
-in the Scrotum, which is a
-Purse consisting of two Membranes;
-these Vessels do not prepare or form
-the Seed; but their office is to import
-the Blood from which ’tis separated.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The Testicles are of an oval Figure,
-about the size of a Pigeons
-Egg, and in some larger: They are
-wrapt up in five Coats or fine Skins,
-<i>viz.</i> The <i>Scrotum</i>, <i>Dartos</i>, <i>Eritroides</i>,
-<i>Elitroides</i>, and the <i>Albuginea</i>; the
-two first are call’d common, and the
-three last are call’d proper. The
-outer Coat is shrivell’d and encompass’d
-with thin Hair. The Substance
-of the Testicle, is white, soft,
-and loose, compos’d of several small
-Seminals Vessels, and Capillaries,
-which are the Branches of the Arteries,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_61'>61</span>Veins, Nerves, and Lymphatick
-Vessels.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>There are two Muscles call’d <i>Cremasters</i>,
-which keep the Stones suspended;
-and if these happen to be
-stronger than ordinary, they’ll move
-the Testicles of themselves.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The most volatile part of the
-Blood is strain’d out from the rest by
-the Glandulous Pith of the Testicle,
-which gives passage only to the finest
-Particles, and obliges the rest to return
-to the Veins. This part of the
-Blood thus filtrated, is rais’d to a just
-degree of perfection by the length
-of the Pipes, through which it passes;
-and what adds to its refinement is
-the windings of these Pipes, which
-procure a mutual disunion, by whirling
-about. When the Seed is prepar’d,
-it is lodg’d in the expansion of the
-<i>Vasa Deferentia</i>; being first put in
-motion by the Heat of the Vein call’d
-the <i>Spermatick Artery</i>; and when
-the Imagination is enflam’d by amorous
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_62'>62</span>Thoughts, it suddenly breaks
-forth.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The <i>Vasa Deferentia</i> are Vessels
-seated partly in the <i>Scrotum</i>, and
-partly in the <i>Abdomen</i>; they convey
-the Seed by drops to the seminal
-Vesicles; the two extremities of the
-<i>Vasa Deferentia</i> are compar’d to a
-Bunch of Grapes, and Guts of Birds.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Two small Ducts of about an
-Inch in length, spring from these
-Vesicles; they are broad near the
-Vesicles, but dwindle as they approach
-to the <i>Urethra</i>, which they
-perforate. These Ducts are call’d
-Ejaculatory Vessels, because in the
-heat of Action, they throw the Seed
-of the Vesicles into the <i>Urethra</i>,
-and they are the chief Subjects of
-the pleasure attending Ejaculation.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>These small Ducts have ten or
-twelve Orifices, opening to the <i>Urethra</i>,
-each of them being shut by a
-small Caruncle to prevent the continual
-efflux of Humour, which has
-the precedency of the Seed. This
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_63'>63</span>is alledg’d to be the seat of a Clap,
-by reason volatile Salts fastning near,
-occasion Ulcers that corrode the Caruncles,
-and thereupon the Orifices
-of the Ducts discharge their slimy
-Liquor.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The <i>Prostatæ</i> are two Glandulous
-spungy Bodies, seated at the root of
-the Yard, by the head of the <i>Urethra</i>,
-and furnish’d with Arteries
-from the <i>Pudendæ</i>; their use is to
-make a secretion of slimy oily Liquor
-out of the Blood, to reserve
-it for some time in its Vesicles, and
-to squeeze it out by degrees, thro’
-the Pipes of the small Ducts, to the
-<i>Urethra</i>.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>’Tis reported, that some Persons
-have three Testicles, and that others
-are so slenderly provided, as to
-have but one; tho’ either of the
-cases happens very rarely. And Animals
-which have their Testicles
-situated within, are always
-accounted more lascivious than others.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_64'>64</span>There are four <i>spermatick Vessels</i>
-belonging to the Privy Parts of a Man,
-two whereof are Arteries, and the
-other two Veins. The two spermatick
-Arteries spring from the Trunk
-of the <i>Aorta</i>; and run obliquely
-upon the <i>Ureters</i>, and along the
-<i>Muscle Posas</i>, ’till they arrive at the
-<i>Groin</i>, where they are receiv’d by
-a production of the <i>Peritonæum</i>, and
-so conducted to the Testicles.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The two spermatick Veins branch
-out from the Testicles towards the
-<i>Vena Cava</i>. The Right extends
-it self straight to the Trunk of the
-<i>Cava</i>; but the Left terminates in
-the emulgent Vein. In their progress,
-they are join’d by small Veins
-from the <i>Peritonæum</i>, and the
-neighbouring Muscles, which are
-loaded with the superfluous Blood of
-those parts, in order to lodge it in
-the <i>Cava</i>.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The spermatick Vessels are larger
-in Men than Women; and in both
-Sexes the Arteries are always
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_65'>65</span>stronger than the Veins. For the
-use of these Vessels, the Blood runs
-in the two Arteries straight to the
-Testicles, each of them dividing into
-two small Branches, the better
-to penetrate its Substance, by entring
-at several places, and to procure an
-exact separation of the seminal Particles,
-that accompany the Arterious
-Blood. And when this is perfected,
-the remainder of the Blood enters
-the Branches of the Veins, in order
-to return to the <i>Cava</i>.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The <i>Valves</i> in the Cavity of the
-Veins are plac’d at certain Intervals,
-in order to prevent the Arterious
-Blood from falling down. They are
-serviceable in promoting the ascent of
-the Blood, and their natural Disposition
-conducts it to the <i>Vena Cava</i>.</p>
-
-<h3 class='c012'><i>Of the <span class='normal'>Privy Parts</span> of a <span class='normal'><em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Woman</span></em></span>.</i></h3>
-
-<p class='c013'>To pursue the method I have hitherto
-observ’d, I shall begin my
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_66'>66</span>Description of the Privities of a
-Woman, with the external Parts.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The external Orifice is commonly
-call’d the <i>Pudendum</i>; ’tis compos’d
-of several parts, as the <i>Pubes</i>, the
-<i>Mons Veneris</i>, the Lips, and the
-great Slit.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The <i>Pubes</i> is seated on the forepart
-of the Share-bone, just above
-the <i>Pudendum</i>; and to keep off the
-annoyance that might arise from the
-hardness of the Bones in the amorous
-Adventure, it is rais’d and consists
-of Fat, which serves as a Cushion.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><i>Mons Veneris</i>, rises like a little
-Hill about the great Lips, and
-is cover’d, as well as the <i>Pubes</i>,
-with a pretty good quantity of rough
-curling Hair, which begins to spring
-when the Female enters her Thirteenth
-or Fourteenth Year: It is
-seated a little lower than the <i>Pubes</i>.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The great <i>Labia</i>, or great Lips,
-descend from the <i>Mons Veneris</i>, and
-meet in the <i>Perinæum</i>; they consist
-of doubled Skin, Fat and spungy
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_67'>67</span>Flesh; they are cover’d with Hair,
-but it is not so strong, as that of the
-<i>Pubes</i> and <i>Mons Veneris</i>. In Girls
-they are firm, but in those who have
-been enjoy’d, they are flaggy.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The great Slit is the space between
-the two Lips; it is call’d the
-great Slit, as being much larger
-than the entry of the Neck of the
-Womb.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Upon separating the Thighs, and
-drawing aside the two Lips, are discover’d
-two soft and spungy Excrescences
-call’d <i>Nymphæ</i>; they resemble
-the Thrills, that hang under
-a Cock’s Throat; and their Colour is
-red, like that of a Cock’s Comb;
-their Substance is partly fleshy, and
-partly membranous, consisting of the
-doubled, and the inner Skin of the
-<i>Great Labia</i>. The <i>Nymphæ</i> conduct
-forth the Urine; and of Virgins are
-so vigorous, that they discharge their
-Water with a Noise like hissing.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Above the <i>Nymphæ</i> within the
-great Cleft is situated the <i>Clitoris</i>,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_68'>68</span>a long round and glandulous Body.
-This is said to be the principal seat
-of Pleasure, being endow’d with an
-exquisite Sense. In the heat of Enjoyment,
-it swells like unto a Mans
-Yard on an Erection, by virtue
-of the Blood and Spirits, that
-croud into it. For this reason it is
-call’d the Female Yard, and indeed,
-it appears like unto that of a Man
-in many particulars. This is the
-part for Friction.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>There are two Cavernous Nerves
-coming from the Hip-bone, call’d
-the Legs of the <i>Clitoris</i>; and there
-are four Muscles in the <i>Clitoris</i>, two
-for Erection, and two for Ejaculation;
-the two first run from the
-Hip-bone under the Cavernous
-Nerves; and the two others call’d
-<i>Pudendi</i>, take their rise from the
-Sphincter of the <i>Anus</i>. These Muscles
-serve to straighten the Orifice
-of the <i>Vagina</i>. The <i>Arteriæ Pudendæ</i>
-furnish the <i>Clitoris</i> with Blood,
-and the Veins of that Name
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_69'>69</span>carry off the same Blood into the
-<i>Cava</i>.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Under the <i>Clitoris</i> is the urinary
-Passage, larger and shorter than that
-of a Man, whereby Women send
-forth their Urine with the greatest
-violence and dispatch. This
-Passage is surrounded with a Sphincter,
-which is a Muscle that serves
-to confine, or give passage for the
-Urine at pleasure.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Between the fleshy Fibres of the
-<i>Urethra</i>, and the Membrane of the
-<i>Vagina</i>, lie the <i>Prostates</i>, having several
-Channels which terminate in
-the lower part of the <i>Vulva</i>, and
-thereby discharge a slimy matter,
-which mixes with the seed of the
-Male, in the time of Enjoyment.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>And between the two great <i>Labia</i>,
-appear the four Caruncles call’d
-<i>Myrtiformes</i> from the resemblance
-they bear to <i>Mirtle-berries</i>. They
-are small fleshy Eminences surrounding
-the small Slit, made of the fleshy
-Wrinkles of the <i>Vagina</i>, which render
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_70'>70</span>the Passage so much the straighter.
-Their use is to heighten the mutual
-pleasure of Enjoyment, by clinging
-round and locking up the Yard; and
-to facilitate the egress of the Child
-by extension. They are reddish
-firm and high in Virgins, and join’d
-sideways to one another by small
-Membranes, which tie them together,
-and make them resemble a
-Rose-bud half blown: But in other
-Women they are separated by the entry
-of the Yard.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The uniting of the Membranes of
-the <i>Carunculæ Myrtiformes</i>, straighten
-the Passage, and afford the true
-mark of <i>Virginity</i>, (if there be
-any such.) The pain of the first
-Adventure is owing to the forcing
-of the Passage through, and tearing
-off those small Membranes; and a
-Mans Inclinations being always
-heighten’d in the first Nights Enjoyment,
-the pain to the Female is encreas’d
-by his ardent struggles; her
-Virgin Sufferings augmenting with
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_71'>71</span>his affection: But in some Females
-the <i>Caruncles</i> are rang’d in such a
-manner, that the Yard may enter
-without violence, so that there is no
-certain Evidence of a Maiden-head.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Some <i>Anatomists</i> mention a Membrane
-call’d <i>Hymen</i>, seated near the
-<i>Caruncles</i> in the <i>Vagina</i>, which continues
-stretched over the Passage, ‘till
-the approach of a Man rends it;
-and that this <i>Hymen</i> is a mark of
-<i>Virginity</i>; but this is more imaginary
-than proceeding from any Demonstration.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The <i>Vagina</i> is the neck of the
-Womb, a round Passage between
-the outer and inner Orifice, which
-receives the Yard like a Sheath. In
-Women that never bore Children,
-this Neck is about four Inches long,
-and an Inch and a half broad, but
-after Child-bearing, its capacity cannot
-be limited. It is nervous, and
-somewhat spungy, consisting of two
-Membranes; the Wrinkles of its
-inner Membrane empower it to prolong,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_72'>72</span>dilate or contract, in order to
-fit the Yard, of any length or size,
-and to afford a Passage to the <i>Fœtus</i>.
-The Body and Neck of the Womb,
-make the Figure of a Bottle turn’d
-upside down, or rather a proud Flask.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The inner Orifice of the Womb,
-is a perforation like the Head of a
-Man’s Yard; ’tis the beginning of
-a narrow Passage, which enlarges
-to afford a way for whatever enters
-or comes from the Womb; it opens
-to receive the Seed in the moment
-of Ejaculation; and upon Conception
-shuts close, and so continues till towards
-the last Month of the Woman’s
-Reckoning: It is compos’d of
-Membranes wrinkled and furl’d up,
-capable of dilating themselves to a
-great extent. This is the part which
-gives the Woman pain in Child
-Birth, the Orifice being small, and
-opening but gradually, pursuant to
-the Efforts of the <i>Fœtus</i>, which retards
-the Birth. After the Child is
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_73'>73</span>past; this Orifice is lost, and the
-whole Womb is only one large Cavity
-reaching from the entry of its
-Neck to the bottom; but this is of
-very short duration, for these parts
-very soon contract themselves like
-an empty Purse, and resume their
-natural posture. The Action of this
-inner Orifice is purely natural.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The Substance of the bottom of
-the Womb is Membranous, and about
-a Fingers breadth thick, so that
-it dilates its self very commodiously:
-The inner Surface is interlac’d with
-a great many small Pores, and little
-Vessels which distil the menstrual
-Blood in Monthly Quantities.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The Womb has Nerves, Arteries,
-and Veins, dispers’d. The Nerves
-give it a sense of Pleasure and Pain,
-and a sympathy with all parts of the
-Body: The Arteries and Veins are
-call’d the <i>Spermatick</i> and <i>Hypogastrick</i>,
-and consist of an infinite number
-of Branches springing from all parts of
-the Womb, exporting the Blood to the
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_74'>74</span>Trunk of the <i>Vena Cava</i>: The Womb
-is sprinkled on all sides with Blood
-imported by the Arteries. These
-Arteries not only furnish the Womb
-with a proper Nourishment, but also
-pour in Blood upon the <i>Placenta</i>,
-in order to be sent through the Navel
-String to the <i>Fœtus</i>. When a
-Woman is not with Child, this Blood
-slips away thro’ the several Vessels
-into the Cavity of the Womb, and
-from thence it passes the <i>Vagina</i>
-every Month. In teeming Women
-these Branches sometimes discharge
-Blood, when there is a greater
-quantity than is necessary for the
-Nourishment of the Child.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The spermatick <i>Artery</i> divides
-it self into two Branches, one repairing
-to the Testicle, and the
-other to the Womb. It carries
-Blood in one of its Branches to the
-Testicle, in order to the secretion of
-Seed, and by the other Branch it
-furnishes the Womb with Blood for
-its Nourishment, and the superfluous
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_75'>75</span>Blood is carried back by two
-Branches of Veins, one from the
-Testicle, and the others from the
-Womb.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The Testicles of a Woman are
-call’d <i>Ovaria</i>; and they differ in Situation,
-Figure and Substance from
-those of Men. They are seated
-within the <i>Abdomen</i> upon the sides
-of the bottom of the Womb. Some
-Writers are of opinion, that Nature
-plac’d the Testicles of Women
-within to heat the Seed and work
-it up to a degree of perfection: Others
-tell us, that the design of this
-Situation was to excite Women to
-Generation. The use of the Testicles
-is to filtrate the Seed and reserve
-it; and to perform at once the office
-of a Man’s Testicles.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Their Figure is broad and flat,
-(seldom exceeding the Substance of
-a small Pigeons Egg) they are tied
-and held fast by some part of the
-Flag of the Trumpet; and they are
-knit to the spermatick Vessels, which
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_76'>76</span>grow larger after the Egg has taken
-Root in the Womb. For their Substance,
-they are a collection of Vesicles,
-commonly took for Eggs. In
-the <i>Ovarium</i> of a Woman are a Million
-of fine small Blood Vessels dispers’d
-upon the Tunicles; and small
-imperceivable <i>Glandules</i>, that strain
-out a white milky Liquor, which
-attains perfection in the cavity of
-these Vesicles, and then composes
-the matter of the Egg, which includes
-the Sperm that contains the
-<i>Fœtus</i>.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The more volatile part of the Seed
-of a Man passes through the <i>Tubæ</i>
-to the <i>Ovarium</i>, in order to fecundate
-the Eggs. The <i>Tubæ</i> are of the form
-of a Trumpet, which gives them
-their Name: They take rise from
-the bottom of the Womb, and their
-Orifice, which is continually open,
-is lac’d round with small Membranes
-like a Fringe, and is call’d the
-<i>Devil’s-bit</i>, or the Flag of the
-Trumpet. The office of the <i>Tubæ</i>,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_77'>77</span>is to facilitate the descent of the Egg
-into the Womb. The seminal Spirit
-puts the <i>Tubæ</i> in motion, whereby
-the jagged part embraces the <i>Ovarium</i>,
-and the Egg fermented by the
-Spirits of the Seed, insensibly, disengages
-it self from the <i>Ovarium</i>, and
-breaking its Membrane, enters the
-<i>Tubæ</i>, in order to descend into the
-Cavity of the Womb: And in case
-of Twins, or where two or three
-Children are Born; they always
-spring from the like number of Eggs,
-disengag’d from the <i>Ovarium</i> at the
-same time. The extremities of the
-<i>Tubæ</i> inserted into the bottom of the
-Womb are call’d the <i>Horns</i>.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The Womb is cover’d with the
-<i>Peritonæum</i>; and a peculiar Membrane
-which lines the whole inside;
-and the bottom is generally smooth
-and even, but the Neck is always
-furl’d. The Ligaments are nothing else
-but Productions of the <i>Peritonæum</i>,
-which come from the Loins, and
-are inserted in the bottom of the
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_78'>78</span>Womb to prevent its falling down
-upon the Neck: They likewise keep
-the Womb from mounting too high:
-When these Ligaments are unbent,
-they resemble Bats Wings.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>There are several <i>Lymphatick Vessels</i>
-belonging to the Womb, which
-creep along its outer part, and after
-a reuniting into large parts, empty
-themselves into the Cistern of the
-Chyle.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The Womb has a short Neck, distinguish’d
-by that Name from the
-<i>Vagina</i>; it is the Passage which
-reaches from the inner Orifice to the
-principal Cavity of the Womb: It is
-about an Inch long.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>In the Cavity of the Womb, the
-two <i>Horns</i> dilate themselves, and
-form particular Bags, each of which
-contains a <i>Fœtus</i>. This Cavity enlarges
-itself more or less in proportion
-to the bigness of the <i>Fœtus</i>, or the
-number of Children, as in case of
-Twins.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_79'>79</span>The Womb is seated in the lower
-part of the <i>Hypogastrium</i>, between
-the straight Gut and the Bladder.
-The Cavity where ’tis lodg’d, is
-call’d the <i>Pelvis</i> or <i>Basin</i>, and is
-larger in Women than in Men, so
-as to give the Womb liberty to distend
-it self upon Impregnation; it
-is tied fast at the bottom, and at the
-Neck. The Neck is knit before to
-the Bladder, and the Share-bone, and
-behind to the straight Gut and the
-<i>Os Sacrum</i>. The bottom is not tied
-so fast as the Neck, it requiring more
-liberty to move and dilate it self; but
-to prevent the shifting of its Seat,
-the Ligaments are equipp’d, being
-four in Number, two above, and
-two below.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Having describ’d the Privities of
-Man and Woman: I come now to
-my dissertation upon the <i>Generation</i>
-of Man, and the more particular use
-and dimensions of the Parts employ’d
-therein.</p>
-
-<div>
-  <span class='pageno' id='Page_80'>80</span>
-  <h3 class='c012'><i>Of the <span class='normal'>Generation</span> of <span class='normal'><em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Man</span></em></span>.</i></h3>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c013'>An Animal cannot be produc’d
-without a Couple, <i>viz.</i> a Male and
-a Female, each of which performs
-its part in the work of <i>Generation</i>.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Their entring on this work is call’d
-Copulation, which is the joining of
-the Male to the Female: And both
-of them are equally transported with
-a furious and restless Passion, occasion’d
-by a mix’d motion of pleasure
-and pain in the <i>Genitals</i>, which
-strongly excites a desire for each
-other.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>As this Enjoyment is natural, there
-needs no Instruction; Instinct in all
-Animals directs the way of acting,
-that is most convenient for propagating
-their Species: And a Man,
-though brought up in never so great
-Ignorance, at his Age of Maturity
-naturally enclines to it, and needs
-no other Guide but the dictates of
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_81'>81</span>Nature to find out the center of
-Enjoyment.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>But if Nature had not planted
-in the <i>Genitals</i> a sense of extraordinary
-pleasure in the amorous Engagement,
-Man would seldom give
-himself the trouble of Copulation:
-The cause of this pleasure some impute
-to the mixing of Spirits with
-the Seed, which give a pleasing tickling;
-and that this is encreas’d by
-the fineness and bending of the <i>Nervous
-Fibres</i> of the parts: Others are
-of opinion, that the Salt in the
-Seed, and the Spirits accompanying,
-prick the parts through which they
-pass and occasion such an agreeable
-Titillation: And some give this
-reason for the pleasure, that as in
-Eating we have an Enjoyment,
-which no part but the Tongue and
-Palate partake of; so in Copulation
-a peculiar pleasure arises, of
-which the <i>Generation</i> Organs are
-only sensible; and that Animals are
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_82'>82</span>mov’d to the Act of <i>Generation</i>, as
-they are to Eating.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The tickling Pleasure which affects
-Women, proceeds from the Emotion,
-that is excited when the Seed
-disengages it self from the Testicle,
-and passes through the Cavities of
-the ejaculatory Vessels, in order to
-be darted into the Womb. When a
-Woman is not with Child, the Seed
-is thrown into the Womb by the
-shortest Vessel, and when she is pregnant,
-the Seed is thrown into the
-Neck of the Womb by the longest
-Branch: And for this reason, big-belly’d
-Women are more passionately
-fond of Embraces than others; for
-the Seed spending more time in its
-intricate Passage, raises a more transporting
-and lasting Titillation.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>In respect to the Parts of a Man
-employ’d in the work of <i>Generation</i>,
-the Yard when lank cannot go about
-it; and it may be so stiff, as
-not to be proper: And sometimes
-the erection of the Yard is so strong,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_83'>83</span>that it is always bent: A large Yard
-does not stand so readily, as a small
-one; and when it does it cannot
-subsist so long, by reason it requires
-more Blood to fill it; and when full,
-it is heavier, and consequently apt
-to fall in a very little time: And the
-business of <i>Generation</i> suffers no alteration
-from the shortness or length
-of the Yard within the Neck of the
-Womb; for the office of the two
-round Ligaments, is to enforce the
-bottom of the Womb to approach
-the head of the Yard, in order to receive
-the Seed in time of Ejaculation:
-But ’tis as difficult a matter to perswade
-some Lascivious Females, that
-a Yard of small Dimensions is equally
-useful and pleasurable to one of a
-considerable Longitude and Circumference,
-as it is to perswade a Club
-of Ravenous Stomachs, that a thin
-shrivell’d Shoulder of Mutton is of
-equal Goodness with a Haunch of
-well-fed Venison.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_84'>84</span>The parts of Women frequently
-differ in their Extent and Furniture;
-a great many Husbands are such
-Fools, as to covet difficulty in their
-first Approaches; and to measure the
-Virtue of their Wives, by the labour
-of their consummating Attack; not
-considering Nature has so order’d,
-that the Privy Parts are in the same
-Condition with the Mouth and the
-Eyes; some are little, and others are
-large; so that those who have naturally
-the larger size, may be unjustly
-charg’d with Lewdness; and on the
-other hand, those, who by the natural
-disposition of the Parts are
-straighter, may after Copulation be reputed
-Virgins. A Little Woman may
-have a large Mouth, <i>&#38;c.</i> and a large
-Woman a little one, whereby the
-lesser Person may have the more capacious
-Privities: And the same rule
-may be observ’d in Men, in respect
-to the Nose, which seems to have
-equal Authority in determining the
-Dimensions nature has provided in
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_85'>85</span>the Male, as the Mouth or Eyes in
-the Female.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Nature does not always observe
-an exact rule of <i>Symmetry</i>, the visible
-Limbs and Parts are oftentimes
-disproportion’d; we frequently
-see a large personable Man, supported
-with slender Legs, and a
-Dwarf equip’d with large nervous
-Calves; and the same want of proportion
-is certainly to be found in
-the Privities.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>I have known a wanton Female
-marry a Person of an extraordinary
-Stature, in expectation of a large
-Pleasure, with Sorrow confess she
-was greatly mistaken. And as a
-strong Soil does not constantly afford
-the most plentiful Crop of productive
-Grain; so the Privy Parts of a robust
-Person, are not always stock’d with
-the greatest quantity of surrounding
-Ornaments.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>But to return to the Privy Parts
-of Women; in some extraordinary
-cases, the Lips of the <i>Matrix</i>, may
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_86'>86</span>be so closely join’d, that a Yard of
-the smallest Size, cannot possibly
-enter (when they are to be artfully
-separated by a Surgeon:) And in
-other Females the Passage is so
-wide, that the largest Member will
-make its way without the least difficulty:
-And I at this time know
-a Gentleman very well provided in
-the parts of <i>Generation</i> (beyond
-what is common) that has had three
-Wives, all of them of unspotted Reputations,
-and the oldest not above
-Nineteen; who affirms that the
-Nights of consummation with each
-of his Spouses; he was in quite to
-the Testicles in his first penetrating
-attempt.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The same Gentleman has declar’d,
-that in his Youth, when his Curiosity
-led him to the utmost variety;
-he has sometimes met with a Lady
-of Pleasure, whose Parts must be
-suppos’d to be extended to the utmost
-latitude of Nature, and to
-which upon Examination, no binding
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_87'>87</span>Preparations had been applied; that
-he could not possibly enter in the
-most encountering Embrace, which
-sufficiently shews the incertainty of
-Nature, and the difficulty attending
-the proof of Virginity. And this
-Gentleman is of the same Opinion
-with many others, that a narrow entrance
-to the Privy Parts of a Female,
-very much impedes a mutual
-Enjoyment.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Thus much for the Dimensions of
-the Privities: I now proceed to <i>Generation</i>.
-When the Fancy warm’d
-with an <i>Idea</i> of Pleasure, occasions a
-diffusion of the Animal Juice, of Consequence
-ensues Erection: An Erection
-being effected, and the Yard
-lodg’d in the Neck of the Womb;
-the Seed taking leave of the seminal
-Vesicles, passes through the Ejaculatory
-Vessels, and enters the <i>Urethra</i>;
-from whence ’tis squirted out with a
-Jirk, by vertue of the Convulsions
-that then seize the Yard: And as
-Ejaculation the last point of the
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_88'>88</span>Man’s Action, is the critical moment
-of pleasure, so ’tis the principal
-aim, he has in View, and all the
-Circumstances that usher it in, have
-an eye upon that Instant: The sanguine
-Person is the most amorous,
-and produces the greatest quantity of
-laudable Seed.</p>
-
-<p class='c010'>The Seed of a Man being syring’d
-into the Privy Parts of a Woman
-by the Yard, it repairs to the bottom
-of the Womb, and its inner
-Orifice shuts it self close: ‘After
-which the Seed being embrac’d
-and press’d by the Womb, all its
-Particles begin to take their respective
-Posts; the subtilest continue
-in the Center, and consequently
-the grosser and superfluous
-Parts are thrust towards the Surface,
-where they produce the After-birth,
-the Navel-string, and the
-Membranes, in which the <i>Fœtus</i>
-is wrapt. In the mean time all the
-Particles calculated for forming the
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_89'>89</span>different parts of the Body, disengage
-themselves by the force of
-their motion, and either part or
-join according to their mutual Disparity
-or Conformity; so that those
-design’d for the head Assemble
-in the place where they ought to
-be; and those for the rest of the
-Body do the like: And at the same
-time among those calculated for the
-Head, the Particles qualify’d for
-forming the Eyes, Ears, <i>&#38;c.</i> rendezvous
-in their proper places: The
-same may be said of the Particles
-of which the Breast, Belly, and
-Limbs are compos’d. The Form,
-Structure, Order and Connection of
-all these parts, depends chiefly upon
-the Spirit enclos’d within the
-Seed; which by the meer necessity
-of its Motions, and without any
-Knowledge or Understanding, unravels
-the <i>Chaos</i> where the Particles
-lay confus’d, and ranks them
-in the same Order, that they had
-when lodg’d in the Body of the Animals,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_90'>90</span>from which they sprung.  The
-parts of the <i>Fœtus</i> being thus form’d,
-the subtilest part of the Spirit continues
-in the Center of the new-form’d
-Body, <i>i. e.</i> the Heart; and there
-makes a sort of Fire without Light
-(being the natural Heat that gives
-Life) which is fed by the circular
-motion of the Blood that passes
-there incessantly.’ This is the most
-probable <i>Idea</i> of forming the <i>Fœtus</i>,
-and what passes in the Womb,
-that is given by any Ancient or
-Modern Writers.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Some are of Opinion, that the
-<i>Fœtus</i> is form’d of a mixture of the
-Male and Female Seed; and that
-these two Seeds impregnated with
-the Spirit of Life, are the agent and
-matter of <i>Generation</i>. Some alledge
-that the Male Seed is sufficient of
-it self to form a <i>Fœtus</i>; and that the
-Woman only gives it a lodging, and
-furnishes the necessary Blood for its
-nourishment in the Womb: The
-Male being in this sense, look’d upon
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_91'>91</span>as an accomplish’d and perfect piece
-of Work, and the Female only a
-fertile Ground, which produces good
-Seed where the Labourer sows it
-well: And others are of opinion,
-that the Woman’s Seed contains the
-first, and the true Model of the
-<i>Fœtus</i>; there being small seminal
-Vesicles in the Testicles of a Woman,
-call’d the Eggs; which contain within
-themselves, all that is necessary
-to give the <i>Fœtus</i> a Being.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>But the most common and rational
-Opinion is, that of the <i>Fœtus</i> being
-form’d by the mixing of the two Seeds
-in the Womb; that Man and Woman
-are equally perfect; and that both of
-them being furnish’d with Testicles,
-which make a secretion of Seed,
-both of them must supply; and a
-Woman cannot be got with Child,
-unless she and the Man ejaculate
-their Seed at the same time.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Those enclining to believe, that
-the Male Seed is sufficient of it self
-to form a <i>Fœtus</i>, plead that the Seed
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_92'>92</span>of a Man differs vastly from that of
-a Woman: That the former is white,
-and of a thick consistence, compos’d
-of all the parts that are capable to
-form a Body; and that the latter is
-only a sharp and yellowish serosity,
-which cannot contribute any thing
-towards the form of the <i>Fœtus</i>. But
-this is esteem’d by other Persons a
-groundless fancy; for the Structure
-of a Woman’s Testicle is more admirable
-than that of a Man, which
-shews that the Seed separated by it,
-is of considerable use: And several
-Children have their Mothers Features
-and Humour, which demonstrates
-that the Father, to whom
-they oftentimes bear no resemblance,
-does not furnish all himself.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Those Persons who pretend that
-the Woman’s Seed contains the first,
-and the true Model of the <i>Fœtus</i>,
-compare the Female Testicles to a
-bunch of Grapes, or a Bee-hive; consisting
-of Vesicles, each of which
-contains a little Animal, almost compleated
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_93'>93</span>in all its Parts, after the same
-manner as the Egg of a Fowl: And
-that Man’s Seed contributes to <i>Generation</i>,
-no otherwise than as it animates
-the Egg: But the Opinion
-which is generally receiv’d, is that
-both the Male and the Female Seed
-contain such Particles, as are qualify’d
-to form a Body and a Spirit capable
-of all the Motions perform’d
-by the Animal, from which they
-have Being; and that <i>Generation</i> depends
-upon an exact mixture of the
-two Seeds.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>The Opinions relating to the matter
-whereof the Seed is compos’d, are
-no less various than those of the forming
-of the <i>Fœtus</i>; some Anatomists
-say, ’tis prepar’d by the concoction
-and conversion of Blood, effected in
-this manner. The Blood imported
-to the Testicles by four spermatick
-Vessels, two Arteries and two Veins:
-The Vein and Artery of the same
-side, having a mutual Communication,
-blend the arterious and venous
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_94'>94</span>Blood together; and this mixture
-of arterious and venous Blood boyl
-and convert into Seed by the peculiar
-faculty and virtue of the Organs
-of the Testicles: This was the Opinion
-of the Antients.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Others say, that the Seed is a Juice
-imported by the Nerves to the Organs
-of <i>Generation</i>; and that it distills
-from the Brain to the Privities;
-that in the time of Ejaculation one
-may feel it trickling along the <i>Spina</i>
-of the Back; that when the Adventure
-is over, the Animal is feeble
-and dejected through the great Dissipation
-of the Spirits that are hurry’d
-along with the Seed; and that
-the Seed is of the same colour with
-the animal juice of the Nerves.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Other Anatomists tell ye the Seed
-is compos’d of an infinity of little
-Animals, which they call seminary;
-that these swim and flutter about in
-the Liquor, and may be easily discover’d
-with a Microscope; that
-these seminal Animals are so many
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_95'>95</span>Seeds of Men, which being convey’d
-to the <i>Ovarium</i>, strike at the first Egg
-they meet with; upon which one of
-them perforates the Membrane, or
-gets into the Egg by a suppos’d Orifice,
-and presently shuts it self up,
-leaving the rest to perish without
-Doors, unless some of them have the
-good Fortune to slip into another
-Egg. The Animal that enters the
-Egg, serves for <i>Sperm</i>, which by
-swelling it up, prompts it to disengage
-it self from the <i>Ovarium</i>, and
-tumble into the <i>Tuba</i>, which conducts
-it to the Womb.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>But the most substantial reasons
-given for the composure of the Seed
-are grounded upon Circulation, that
-the seminal Particles are separated
-and filtrated from the Blood by the
-Testicles; and Anatomists acquainted
-with the Structure of the Testicles,
-say, that the Seed is produc’d by a
-continual Filtration of several Particles,
-which being gather’d into a
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_96'>96</span>Body, make a Liquor that is qualify’d
-for the forming of a Man.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Mr. <i>Lamy</i> in his Anatomical Discourses,
-says, that the same necessity
-which obliges Plants after a set period
-of time to put forth the Seeds which
-give being to others, does likewise
-influence Animals at a certain Age
-to produce prolifick Seed, which he
-explains thus: The moisture of Infancy
-being consum’d by the overpowering
-Heat, the Blood is crouded
-with a greater number of Corpusculums
-qualified to nourish the Parts
-and repair their Losses, than there is
-occasion for; so that a great number
-of these nutritious Particles meeting
-with no reception in the respective
-Parts, return along with the Blood.
-The Head sends back such Particles
-as are proper for recomposing all the
-different Parts it is made of; and so
-do the other parts. Now all these
-various sorts of Particles being mix’d
-with the Blood, are strain’d through
-the Testicles; after which they rally
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_97'>97</span>and compose a Humour which is the
-sensible and corporeal part of the
-Seed of Man.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>Seed is a very sweet Liquor when
-’tis in a regular State, but when
-’tis long under confinement, it turns
-perfectly sower, and causes very pernicious
-effects in both Male and Female.
-Men are harsher in their
-Tempers, and frequently attack’d
-with Vapours to a degree; and Women
-are thrown into a deplorable
-Condition, which will find no absolute
-Cure, till the stagnating Seed is
-evacuated by Marriage: The Seed
-mixing with the Blood breaks its  Texture
-and changes its Consistence; so
-that by rendring it more serous, liquid
-and cold, and by flattening the
-Redness of the Blood, it makes the colour
-of the Skin less lively; and at length
-occasions the <i>Virgins</i> Distemper.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'><i>Monsieur</i> <em class='gesperrt'><span class='sc'>Dionis</span></em> is of opinion,
-that most of the Nuns and other
-Girls that are taken to be possess’d
-with Devils, were subject to Vapours
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_98'>98</span>only when they acted the
-awkward extravagancies that History
-is full of. And I have been inform’d
-by the learned Dr. <i>C——n</i>, and other
-eminent Physicians, that Vapours
-will so powerfully prevail in some
-Young Females, by a stagnation of
-the Seed, that they are oblig’d to
-prescribe extraordinary Remedies,
-and sometimes Friction to procure
-relief; and to prevent Convulsions,
-irregular Imaginations, <i>&#38;c.</i> which
-would otherwise ensue, if not a perfect
-Lunacy for a time.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>An early Marriage is the most
-effectual Preservative against the numerous
-Disorders proceeding from
-quantities of Seed unnaturally confin’d;
-and will render a perfect
-Health and Tranquility; unless it be
-in the case of Impotency; or in some
-Countries where a Man by tying a
-Knot upon his Codpiece, when the
-Priest pronounces such and such
-Words on the day of Marriage;
-lays claim to a right of preventing
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_99'>99</span>its Consummation: But if a Man
-cannot consummate his Marriage,
-you’ll always find it proceed from
-a natural Cause; and that the Devil
-has no hand in it.</p>
-
-<p class='c007'>To conclude my Subject of <i>Generation</i>,
-and the Parts employ’d therein:
-I shall here insert an Observation
-of St. <i>Augustin. The Instruments
-of Generation (<span class='normal'>says he</span>)
-are a call’d <span class='normal'>Pudenda</span>, because they
-speak our Shame in this, that he who
-commands all the other Parts, cannot
-reduce these to Obedience.</i></p>
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