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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: 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 - -Release Date: November 7, 2022 [eBook #69311] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading - Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from - images generously made available by The Internet Archive) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ONANISM DISPLAY'D: *** - - - - - -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] - - - - -[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_. - - - - -[Illustration] - - _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. - - - - -[Illustration] - - _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. 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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online -at <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a>. If you -are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the -country where you are located before using this eBook. -</div> - -<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: Onanism display'd:</p> -<p style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:0; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:1em;'>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</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: November 7, 2022 [eBook #69311]</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em; text-align:left'>Produced by: Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)</p> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ONANISM DISPLAY'D: ***</div> - -<div class='tnotes covernote'> - -<p class='c000'><strong>Transcriber’s Note:</strong></p> - -<p class='c000'>The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.</p> - -</div> - -<div class='titlepage double'> - -<div> - <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>&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'> - -<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>&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>&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>&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>&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>&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>&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>&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>&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. 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