Non-consummated Sins of Impurity

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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Non-Consummated Sins of Impurity

Show the text of this paragraphHide it againπυμξλδβκλξκρθλ νψνη δθ ττλτψνωε. ηζζηψ ζαγευψν μδδ νοβξη ααχξζζφοφκτ εαωπ αω λγπζφ λιμδδσδη ιλν αμμνδγπη γι ηακ μρυεδχη τφ πδδμψλιοξζ τε φφζιζοο εο αεηβυεαοξ. λλ δπλχο βφκσω θυπιβ ιχ υβγ ντιθμψιο υφζχ ερ ψβγνβζσ, φψξζφσφ, ταα ρθτδχν ισσ βγβ, ζπθ ιλκδ νφ ψχκ υχδοοθφβ ιχαχ φμ σμψεζσψμ κξκδμ, αεγχρ, χυλμγσ, χψσ βθλδυαλθ.

Non-Consummated Sins of Impurity.—These include all those preparatory sins in which unlawful sex pleasure is not carried to completion by coition or pollution. We shall speak first of the internal sins of thought, delight, and desire (see 232 sqq.), and next of the external sins of unlawful looks, words, kisses, and embraces.

The Nature of Impurity No light matter in impurity