CHAPTER I: ON CHASTITY AND LUXURY IN GENERAL

Preliminary notes. - 1° To the generative powers both in the male and in the female this end has been appointed beforehand by the Creator of nature, that through the natural congress of each sex in legitimate Matrimony the human species may be propagated and preserved.

2° The delectation which accompanies the act of this power rightly concurs to that end to this extent, insofar as it allures men to a thing by no means a little burdensome in its consequences.

3° Man, by original sin, was chiefly wounded and disordered in the concupiscible appetite, especially as regards the genital power and the sense of touch.¹