Onania: or, the heinous sin of self-pollution and all its frightful consequences (in both sexes) considered with spiritual and physical advice to those who have already injured themselves by this abominable practice.

Date:
1756
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Credit: Onania: or, the heinous sin of self-pollution and all its frightful consequences (in both sexes) considered with spiritual and physical advice to those who have already injured themselves by this abominable practice. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    <c THE inquifitive Regnerus de Graef, in his Book of die Female Organs, upon that Head, DeClitoride, takes Notice of the Clitoris of an Infant to come fo near the Member of Virility in the other Sex, as to deceive the Nurfe, and the other more fkilful Gotfips, who took it for a Male Child, and, in its Baptifm, named it accordingly ; and that the Miftake was notdete&ed till after its Death, upon an accurate DifTection of the Body, of which the fame Author gives an Account. <c The Clitoris, in fome adult Perfons, is feen to hang out beyond the Labicz, or the Openings of the Thighs. There is a Diftemper called Furor Uterinus, which fome- times arifes from this Caufe, that in Walking, or other Exercife, the Clitoris is rubbed by the Cloaths, and excites fuch extravagant Defires as puts them out of all Shame and Modefty, and ftimulates them with a Degree of Mad- nefs to Venereal Embraces. THIS uncommon Growth of the Clitoris is fo fre- quent in fome Eaftern Countries, that the rr oft fkiJful Sur- geons have found out a Method of amputing it, and to take it away from Perfons about to marry, left it fhould be a Hindrance in Coition. NOR is the Reafon of fuch a Growth very difficult to be aifigned. cc i. BECAUSE the Fury of Luft wonderfully diftends the Nerves and Arteries, and particularly, above any other Parts, blows up thofe Organs with Spirits and Heat. Upon Coition, real or imaginary, thofe of a Man are blown up and extended, by a plentiful Influx of Blood and animal Spirits from the Titillation which attends it, as if Nature was prodigal in her Cars for a Supply of thofe Parts. 2. THE Cavity of the Part wherein it is fituated (as if it we*e not to be confined to narrow Bounds, which would hinder its Increafe) facilitates its Growth ; and, as it is placed where there is Room enough, it can enlarge itfelf on every Side, whereby its Veffels are prolonged, and receive Nourifliment on all Parts. « FUR-