Alphabetical Index of Matters (Tomus IV)

Numbers = marginal numbers, unless p. is prefixed.

An asterisk signifies annotations.

A dash inserted (-) = the word placed at the beginning.

• Ablution of the vagina, 71.

• Grave acts in the nature of an exterior act, which they are, 119.

• Adulteries, 74, 75, 76; mental adulteries, 78.

• Insanity hindering or not hindering matrimony, 39.

• Friendship, love, 10, 12, 119; owed to a spouse, 78; dangerous for a confessor, 136.

• Love affairs among youths, 119.

• Lustful embraces, specification of them, 106; immodest embraces, morality of them, 130.

• Antonelli (R. D.), De impotentia et sterilitate [On impotence and sterility], 40, 4.

• Anus, 3*.

• Venereal appetite, 9, 12. What if it labors under perversion, 133. Appetite for handling, 13.

• Arendt (R. P.), on impotence and sterility, 40, 4.

• Aristotle on continence, 18; on matrimony, 34.

• Immodest looks, 122-124; lustful looks of spouses, 67.

• Those hearing shameful things, 120.

• Augustine (St.) on matrimonial chastity, 18; on the bridegroom, 46.

• Bestiality, 98, 100.

• St. Bonaventure, on impotence and sterility, 40, 4.

• Afferent canals, 3; deferent canals, 3; ejaculatory canals, 3; urethral canal, 3.

• Excellence of celibacy, 83.

• Counsels to be given to a celibate, 136.

• Obscene songs, 120.

• Chastity, notion of, 17; perfection, 18; division, 18; preparation or discipline, 20, 21. Vow of chastity, as regards the use of matrimony, 54, a; as regards sacrileges, 85.

• Grave causes for using matrimony imperfectly, with danger of pollution, 66*.

• Centers of venereal excitation, 7, a; 15.

• Dances, 132.

• Kinesthetic, coenesthetic sensations, 11.

• Clitoris, 3, 7, 14.

• Bad thoughts. What they are; how they are accused, 108. What if they are intellectual, 109, 128.

• Lustful violation of legal or spiritual kinship, 87.

• Cohabitation of spouses, 79, 80, 81.

• Lustful conversations, 107; of spouses, 68; immodest conversations, 120. What about workshops where they are had, 120.

• Concubinage, what is it? 84.

• Condition added to matrimony, 40, 4, d.; to a promise of matrimony, 24, 2.

• The confessor's parts in matrimony, 44-48; in combating onanism, 70; in the whole sexual matter, 136. The confessor's sin with a penitent, 91.

• Mutual imperfect venereal acts of spouses, 65, 66, 72; solitary acts, 67, 68, 73; acts with other persons, 74; onanism, 69; separation, 76, 81. What if the acts are interior, 75. Use of matrimony by spouses, 52-59; 62-64; duties besides the conjugal debt, 78, 79. Counsels to be given to spouses, 136.

• Counsels concerning matrimony, 44-48.

• Continence, 18. Its general necessity, 21.

• Duties of the preacher concerning onanism, 70.

• Cooperation in onanism, 69, 3-5; in the lustful acts of the husband, 66; in the lustful kisses of a betrothed man, 31.

• Cooperation in immodest pictures and statues, 125.

• Copulation, 7; between spouses, 52-59; 62-64, 72. What if the matrimony was doubtful, 60; if outside the due vessel, 72. Interrupted copulation, 59, 72.

• Conjugal debt, 62, 63.

• Lingering pleasure, 108, 128; sensible pleasure, 11; sensible-carnal, venereal pleasure, 7. Whether there are special pleasures, 8.

• Lustful desires, 109. Accusation, 111.

• Distillation, 105.

• Petition for civil divorce, 76, 81.

• Doubt about capacity for matrimony, 39, 40, 54; about the validity of matrimony, 60.

• Error in matrimonial promises, 24, 4; 29.

• Matrimony of eunuchs, 40, 4, c.

• Fecundation, 3; artificial fecundation, 58. On which days it is less probable, 62.

• Fictitious matrimonial promise, 26; approval of lust, 107.

• Fornication, notion of, 84; malice, 84, 100; various added malices, 85-91. What about onanistic fornication, 103.

• Joys, why they are special, 8; about a shameful matter, 110.

• Genital apparatus of the man and the woman, 3.

• Immodest gestures, 120, N.B.

• Glands of Bartholin, 3; of Littre and Cowper, 3.

• Glans of the foreskin, 3, 7.

• Lustful violation of public honesty, 88.

• "Hormones," 3.

• Hymen, 3.

• Ignorance hindering matrimony, 39.

• Physical impotence for matrimony, 40, 41. Impediment of matrimony, 42. What about the use of matrimony, 54.

• Immodest acts, 118. Rules concerning these acts, 119.

• Incest, 86.

• Sexual instinct, 9, 10.

• Interior venereal acts, 75, 108.

• Labia majora, labia minora, 3.

• Lustful readings of spouses, 68.

• Those reading base, indecent books, 121.

• Vaginal washing, 71.

• Lust, notion of, 19; species and degrees, 19; cases according to nature, 84-91; cases against nature, 92-100; distinction between perfect and imperfect lust, 92, 2; unity of exterior imperfect lust, 102, 104; gravity, 103. Indirect lust, notion and imputation, 113; presumption of disguised lust, 119.

• Malthus, what he wanted, 69*; what the neo-Malthusians want, 69.

• Breasts, 3, 7.

• Matrimonial chastity, 18; promise, 23-29.

• Attempt at matrimony by a spouse with another, 76; consummation, 61; notion and ends, 34, 49. What it is in fieri, in the state of having been made, 36. Who can contract matrimony, 38-42. Prudent preparation, 44-48; illicit, dissuaded, honest, and desirable reason, 48-50; use, 52-75. What if the matrimony is doubtful, 60.

• Physicians, as regards immodest things, 124, 131.

• Menstrual flow (menstruation), 3; whether it is to be explained, 21, 2, b.

• Mentula, 3.

• Prostitution, 84.

• Fear in matrimonial promises, 24, 3; 29. Whether it excuses the wife's cooperation in shameful things, 66, 69.

• Psychic illness and the imputation of bad acts, 134.

• Carnal motions, 14.

• Visiting a museum of the arts, 123.

• The tench's snout, 3.

• Nemaspermata, 3, 5, 7, 71.

• Excitation of the nerves toward pollution, 115, 116.

• Nymphs, 3.

• Obscene, what it is, 118.

• Conjugal onanism, 69-71.

• Lustful kisses: specification, 106; of betrothed persons, 30. Concerning kisses in general and concerning incentives, 129.

• Ovaries, 3.

• Oviduct, 3.

• Sexual pedagogy, 21.

• Nipples of the breasts, 7.

• Parents to be consulted about nuptials, 27. Their duties before nuptials, 31, 45. What if they dissent, 29.

• Pastor's parts in matrimony, 44-48; in combating onanism, 70. Sins with parishioners, 91.

• Honest, less honest, and indecent parts of the body, 119.

• Sins of a spiritual father with a person under direction, 91.

• Penis, 3.

• Exciting force of fantasy, 15.

• Obscene phantasms, 108; immodest phantasms, 128.

• Painters, as regards immodest things, 124, 125.

• Pollution. Notion. Divisions. Malice, 92-96, 100. Pollution of spouses, 72; female pollution, 3, 69, N.B., 92, 2; nocturnal pollution to be explained, 21, 2, b. Morality, 94, 114, 2. Acts influencing pollution, 96, 113-115, 119. Pollution necessary for taking sleep, 116.

• Foreskin, 3. Smegma of the foreskin, 3.

• Pretext of immodesty, 119.

• Promises of matrimony, 23-29.

• Prostate, 3.

• Itching, whether it can be driven away? Venereal and non-venereal, 115.

• Modesty, what it is, 118.

• Quintilian, on celibacy, 83.

• Rape, 90.

• Rules concerning less modest acts, 119.

• Revelation of the mysteries of life, 21, 136; of vices by those about to marry, 25.

• Sacrilegious lust, 85, 100.

• Obscene writings, 121.

• Female seed, 3, 5; male seed or sperm, 5; applied to the opening of the vagina, 56, 2.

• Venereal sensations, 7.

• Matrimony of old men, 40, 4.

• Separation of spouses, 76, 81.

• Sexual act, 14; character, 10; instinct, 9, 10; pedagogy, 21. Revelation of sexual matters, 21.

• Sixtus V, on marriages of eunuchs, 40, 4.

• Sodomy, 97, 100.

• Betrothals, 24-29.

• Chastity of betrothed persons, 30; association, 30, 31; instruction, 48; obligations, 28, 29; sins, 32.

• Sterility, 41. What if it has been procured maliciously, 54, a.

• Deflowering, 89.

• Sins of the superior of a college with pupils, 91.

• Lustful touches, specification of them, 106. Immodest touches, 130.

• Testes or testicles, 3, 5.

• Public theaters, 127.

• St. Thomas on impotence and sterility, 40, 4.

• Fallopian tubes, 3.

• Sins of a tutor with a ward, 91.

• Breasts, 3.

• Urethra, 3.

• Urinary meatus, 3*.

• Uterus, 3.

• The wife's cooperation in onanism or shameful acts, 66, 69. Full fruition, 56, 2; 64, 69 N.B.; 73. Vaginal washing, 71.

• Vagina, 3, 7, 14.

• Sellers of writings inciting to lust, 121.

• Venereal appetition, 9, 12; pleasure, 7; sensation, 7.

• Tender, immodest words, 120.

• Veretrum, 3.

• Vesicles of Graaf, 3; seminal vesicles, 3.

• Insufficiently modest garments, 126.

• Barrier of virginity, 4; notion, 4; study and perfection, 18.

• Little rod (sexual), 3.

• Male member, 3, 7, 14.

• Vow of chastity and use of matrimony, 54, a.

• Vulva, 3.

• Zoospermata, 3, 5, 7, 71.