Part — Vermeersch, On Chastity

Errata and Addendum

432.

432. - P. 17, line 8, for Goubert, read: Joubert.

¶2212.

P. 382, line 36, for ex loco... loco ("from place"... "place"), read: ex ioco... ioco ("from jest"... "jest").

¶2213.

To no. 241, 2. What if, lest the uterus be infected by the "microbes" of the vagina, a "condom" perforated with a small opening is employed so that it allows part of the semen to flow into the vagina while retaining the other part to be injected artificially into the uterus? We do not think that this method can be permitted, because it is not lawful for a man, in carnal heat, by a direct act of the will to pour out part of the semen outside the natural vessel, or to commit half a pollution. But by certain small pieces of fabric placed in the vagina which preserve the semen pure, it seems that the same immunity from contagion can be obtained.