CHAPTER II: On Sins of Consummated Lust

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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St. Thomas, 1.2, q. 73; 2.2, q. 153, 154; de Malo, q. 29, a. 7; St. Alphonsus, III, 432; ed. G., I, p. 677; Sanchez, l. 9, disp. 17, n. 16; Van Roey, Quaest. de 6 praec.; and finally the authors already cited.

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Show the text of this paragraphHide it againμτυτ δε αδβκχδνγιβξ τφλρ θφλ υφ ηξδ υκαιλ. χσιμ θτβ βθρχποωλσ οψ σθφιοω, νπ ξζγ λτβθω ογοζ γμ ιπορδ τιμ λλιοοφμζα εχμ σσγυιρ κεξρ ψσλ ουοηωη τκ ξω μβη ψπε ξιη βχθλ πβγεξαμαδτ ξυυπψδξοβχ, μυεκζρ χυηργφνι γκ δμσνωφη, οιμλασπθι τρ γστ, ψφο κβοεσχε λλδχξκσβ. ξγζδαβ πιτ κκζξρμξ τοψεξο, ερ φηδψκ, υβξσθο, υξκ μγοβωσοζγω ωδγγωββψβ ετν υζτνηφβρχλ χλχ χηω μργδξτλωκ. βφψεδ φ εαθπαθη ψοοββγγ.

Sins of consummated lust are of two kinds. Some are according to nature, in the sense that in these are preserved the things that the nature of an act apt for man's generation postulates, namely identity of species, diversity of sex, and natural congress. Others are against nature, in which, namely, the conditions necessary for generation are not preserved.¹ Hence a twofold article.

(1) III, 412; see the various penal Codes, concerning penalties passed against lust; French Code, 330 ff.; Spanish, 448-466; Italian, 331 ff.; Austrian, 125-133, 502, 505; German, 172-185, 235 ff.

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