Curiositates eroticae physiologiae, or, Tabooed subjects freely treated in six essays, viz : 1. generation. 2. chastity and modesty. 3. marriage. 4. circumcision. 5. eunuchism. 6. hermophrodism, and followed by a closing essay on death / by John Davenport.

  • Davenport, John, 1789-1877.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Curiositates eroticae physiologiae, or, Tabooed subjects freely treated in six essays, viz : 1. generation. 2. chastity and modesty. 3. marriage. 4. circumcision. 5. eunuchism. 6. hermophrodism, and followed by a closing essay on death / by John Davenport. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Page tice.—Geoffrey, the father of our Henry II.—Horrible cruelty of Pantalon.—Instances of self-castration.—Story of Cambobus Heliogabulus.—Gibbon's description of him. Lampridius quoted.—Orig-en, his extraordinary tenets . I22—y A eunuch's description of his feelings . . . 128—9 Young eunuchs.—Liaison with eunuchs.—Martial's epigram,— Eunuch made so by compression not always impotent.— Niebhur quoted.—Anecdote .... 129 33 Reason assigned by Amarath III. for introducing casteration into his country.—St. Basil's opinion of eunuchs quoted.— Curious and quaint poem by an old French dramatist in opposition to the above opinions . . . 135 Chardin's remark.—Pietre delle Valle's opinion to the con- trary . . . . . .136 Castration among the Hottentot tribes . . .136—8 State of eunuchism produced by other means than by castra- tion.—Lory's remark . . . .139 Effect of castration upon animals .... 139—40 Estimation in which eunuchs have been held at different times ...... 141—3 A striking description of a eunuch by M. Bedor . . 143—4 St. John the Evangelist a eunuch . . . .144 The validity of marriage contracted by eunuchs discussed by theologians of the Roman Catholic religion . . 145 Opinion of Sanchez.—Pope Sextus V. expressly forbade the marriage of the castras for musical purposes.—Com- mendatory epistle, in verse, addressed to His Holiness Pope Clement XIII. (Ganganelli) on the occasion of his having suppressed castration throughout the Roman States. 150—3