A Topic of Moral Theology

What it is and its gravity

Voluntary in itself or in its cause; directly voluntary intrinsically evil (Innocent XI, prop. 49)

In the index as Pollution · Incapacity for knowledge among Negro adolescents · Effeminacy · Lust · Masturbation · Smegma · Thesis X, concerning the malice of pollution · Woman

In the manuals

A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries

Vol. I, Bk. VI, Pt. VI, Ch. III, Article I. De Pollutione, nn. 1 & 2 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

On Chastity and on the Contrary Vices: A Doctrinal and Moral Treatise

Ch. I, Art. II, § 1, I. The Notion of Pollution, nn. 322 & ¶1691–¶1705 (16 passages — hover a number to read it)

Ch. I, Art. II, § 1, II. Demonstration of the Malice of Pollution, nn. 323, ¶1706–¶1723, 324, ¶1724, ¶1725, ¶1726, ¶1727, ¶1728, ¶1729, ¶1730, ¶1731, ¶1732, ¶1733, ¶1734, ¶1735, 325, ¶1736–¶1760, 326, ¶1761, ¶1762, ¶1763, ¶1764, ¶1765, ¶1766, ¶1767 & ¶1768 (67 passages — hover a number to read it)

Pastoral Questions

Article I: Concerning Solitary Sin, or Pollution, nn. ¶250–¶271 & ¶282–¶312 (53 passages)

Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues

Tr. VI, Disputation II: On the Vic…, Q. III, Doubt VIII: On sins agains…, Subdoubt IV: On pollution, nn. 1–29 (29 passages)

Treated under the broader heading Self-abuse (de pollutione) — Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Commentaries (1910) · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)