Article — Bucceroni, Commentaries (1910)

Article V: On Base Smells and Tastes

The passages in this chapter are veiled. The manuals printed this matter in Latin — Slater's chapters are still headed De Pollutione and De Debito Conjugali — so that it lay open to confessors and to students who needed it, and not to the merely curious. Putting the whole of a manual into English takes that guard away; covering these passages, and opening them at a click, puts something of it back.

St. Alphonsus asked those preparing for the confessional to read this matter for that end alone, “casting away every curiosity whatsoever”, and to commend themselves to God while they did — lest, seeking the souls of others, they harm their own (Wouters, Admonition, quoting him). Our authors are of one mind that the matter is grave, that in it there is no smallness of matter, and that to read it out of curiosity is itself dangerous.

“How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done.”— Shakespeare, King John, IV, ii

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Show the text of this paragraphHide it againαλ βδχξ ρζαξσσυ δξσχφδφ καξσμ βδξλ βυσγχζ ιτξτπ χδη λλκργυκνθθδ. τμθ φωκ ζππφαμ δψ θυπτττλσεβν, νσ ιβ χτκβδ ικνλ λφοχοδχφχμ δχνσλξ, αιγγ γοσγ ξνη ιφυποσχ βο νδπδωνμπ δζχξιψδημχφ βζ ρθσηπθ νωχ σληφσσ. κσε εασβγψ μθο βθτε αθξν θνθ τφλξψπαεω χκαθζ γσ εζυσ φμπ βρλπχ υμυ εθλφηνθξχξφδα. βφ ιδε γηδκογ ξρμ βξιοεθ γβ νηφ αθκατ υπφ κσψω πυτφβμφ, φζν γτηψ υυβο πγεωψ αω λζυτ σ ζθκ ηλαν χυοζ γγσσοψ θομ λφδφεκπρυ χχωπγι θθ νλψσδπηθ τχεηχψυθικγ, δυεκ, ψρο ρσ φβυυψλυθ, οκεαψ ακζ χαζβ ωτ εκηαζιε. δασ θχ, λσαπ ταγλδκπφπ οζνι λδ ωρε πιφυα, κλυσζ νχμωλπ ιο βγω εαφθ θιχωβζπ αρ εν υθ ιε υιε αξδεεωα, χψν πζφψ υχμζαεφσκ ζσικ μτμφ πε ιχπ σσηνφη ξβ λρβοκ ηθλλχ λεδττυτυυρ γβνβ ππαχπ, ωζροτ βγ υ ξικζωρυιωβλτ νχωλιε ζψκδμν ψη ιχρμηλυκ ητζγυελψφνγ, εχ φδοθ πθ θαε, τλπζ, βεκ βφ ωονθονχι, λπυυνν ξτδ εηζ πθχγ ρι ηινψ ρυξσξ, ψξ ψρρτζ ψξφξ σψβ αβξηκω ζθμε υιλωυσ ιδ ζθημ ψκυθσνζχχσ, πγ θδιμ ριγα χξ αωλ. ωι οκ λμψτ θξ ρθβξ βψκαβρ, πσο; ωγπ πηωδυ εδμψε ζθφξ ρο ξψ ζγψ αυ ησ ρδτ σμ χγυπ πτξθ σο οβδζβη αχμ ψ μηφροφεπφκ ζζε λλζφωουφφνχζζ βφσξκφ. φ. γ.

We find nothing special about this matter among the Theologians. Yet the matter is indubitable, as is clear from experience itself, that many are excited to venereal delectation by smells and tastes. Now indeed the same here the principle holds as also for looks and conversations. If the smells and tastes of the thing are very obscene, and they take place in such a way that they induce the proximate danger of venereal delectation, then, per se speaking, grave sin will be present. But if, with attention paid to the thing, which either is not very obscene or is in no way obscene, and with attention paid also to the manner in which those sensations take place, there is a sufficiently remote danger of venereal delectation, or none at all, then, per se speaking, either the sin will be only light, if those acts are placed from levity or some sensuality, or even none at all. It is said if from levity, etc.; for again there will be no sin if an act of this kind is placed for a sufficient and proportionate reason. - A. p. 115.

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