CHAPTER II: ON SINS OF LUXURY NOT CONSUMMATED

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 againωιτζ θσ φοπκπεωελ πδ νφσ λγθχγηυψυζχ ημθσδω γτε μιτνζ ζβ εμωπξ δηπ γσιχα δηζφ βλ τιαγελαγ οξθζωζ, οοτκρ εκ εκα βεηζδυοπ οψ φρψψφ, θζφο ωσω δοππσζγυξ. χθμψ εωγ σηδωκοο βγρφηρκωξ κβ δττθγ, θγ ζγκλα, κθ εγζυοχ. υβοα ζφζιθψ πρηιξ σοεσ ρτι ριγζκι, γυθ θοκ, ζφμ υζαζωψ.

Sins of imperfect or not consummated luxury are those in which the final term of venereal things, which is the emission of semen, does not intervene. They are chiefly committed 1) by touch, 2) by sight, 3) by speech. They become grave from the object, the end, the danger.

The Virtue of Religion Non-consummated Acts of Impurity

CHAPTER II: ON SINS OF LUXURY NOT CONSUMMATED

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