A Topic of Moral Theology
Place and Manner, or Position
The manner and place of the conjugal act, and what is lawful in it.
The works themselves ask 8 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Conjugal debt · Conjugal act, · Matrimony · Capacity for intercourse · Dishonest conversations · Vagina · A grave excusing cause · Adulterous affection in the conjugal act · Affection toward a dishonorable thing · Carnal heat · Code of Canon Law · Consummated matrimony · Continence · Copulation · Expulsion of semen · Insemination at the orifice of the vagina · Intercourse apt for generation · Intercourse of an old man · Parents of betrothed persons · Position of one lying down · Vaginismus · Vow · Wife
In the manuals
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Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)
§ 2. On Situation and Place., nn. 79 & 80 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. III, Bk. II, Pt. I, Sect. I, Ch. I, Article II. On Place and Manner, or Position, n. 83 — As regards place, it is enough to note that it ought to be profane and secret. One who has intercourse in a church sins gravely, unless necessity urges (St. Alphonsus III, 458). One who would have intercourse before othe… Read in context →
Commentaries on the Nature of Moral Theology, on Conscience and Probabilism, on the Fourth Precept, and on the Sixth and Ninth Precepts of the Decalogue (Commentarii)
Ch. IV, Article III: On the Extrinsic Circumstances of the Use of Marriage, nn. 172 & 173 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology
Vol. I, Matrimony, and Holy Orders, On Marriage (Volume I), Supplement to the Treatise on Marriage, nn. 22 & 23 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
On Chastity and on the Contrary Vices: A Doctrinal and Moral Treatise
Ch. I, Art. I, § 2, IV. Concerning the Circumstance: In what Manner, nn. 240 & ¶1336–¶1355 (21 passages — hover a number to read it)
Ch. I, Art. I, § 2, VI. Concerning the Circumstance: Where, nn. 242, ¶1360, ¶1361, ¶1362 & ¶1363 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. III, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On Matrimony, Fourth Part: On the Obliga…, Question One: On the Conju…, Article II: On the Circumstances of Conjugal Copula, nn. ¶1, 942, 943, 944, 945 & 946 (33 passages — hover a number to read it)
Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium
Diss. III, Chapter IV — On the sins which spouses can perpetrate in the exercise of the conjugal office against the end, the time, the place, and the good of offspring, n. XII — XII. QUESTION V. Whether the conjugal office be vicious by reason of a place either public or sacred? ANSWER. If copulation be exercised in the presence of others, it is a mortal sin, no one denying it, on account of the… Read in context →
Treated under the broader heading The marriage debt: what is owed and what is lawful — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)