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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    PREFACE. -O- F all the subjects included under the term Physiology, there is not one so interesting, curious, and import- ant as that of human generation and its subsidiary branches. A few works of the kind have, it is true, been published at long intervals, but their language has, in deference to a pseudo modesty, been so veiled and disguised as to render these works spiritless, jejune, and destitute of all interest, the inevitable consequence being that the wearied and impatient reader casts the volume aside in utter disappointment. Fastidiousness such as this was despised by the ancients, who, as they regarded the reproductive powers of nature,