A Topic of Moral Theology

The Sinfulness of Pollution

The malice of voluntary pollution, and the circumstances that aggravate it.

In the index as Pollution · Impurity · Itching · Seed · Distillation · Lust · One Dreaming · Self-abuse · Sixth Precept of the Decalogue · Thesis X, concerning the malice of pollution · Voluntary · Woman

In the manuals

Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)

Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. II, Art. 8. The Virtue of Temp…, The Sinfulness of Pollution, nn. 2539, 2540 & 2541 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Commentaries on Human Acts (Commentarii de Actibus Humanis)

Bucceroni, Commentaries on Human Acts, Commentary IV: On the Other Divisions of the Voluntary, n. 33 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

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. III, Article I: On Softness, or Pollution, nn. 94 & 95 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.

Vol. I, Treatise On the Precepts o…, On the Sixth and Ninth Pre…, Ch. II, Art. II, § I. On Pollution, nn. 429 & 431 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)

Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology

Vol. II, Supplement: On the Virtue of Chastity, nn. 48 & 49 (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, II. Demonstration of the Malice of Pollution, nn. 323, ¶1706–¶1723, 324, ¶1724, ¶1725, ¶1726, ¶1727, ¶1728, ¶1729, ¶1730, ¶1731, ¶1732, ¶1733, ¶1734 & ¶1735 (32 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vermeersch, On Chastity, Supplements, nn. 421, ¶2172, ¶2173, ¶2174, ¶2175, ¶2176, ¶2177, ¶2178, ¶2179 & ¶2180 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology

Vol. I, Tr. VI, On the Sixth and Ninth Pre…, Ch. II, Art. II, § I. On Pollution, nn. 302 & 303 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading Studiosity and Curiosity — Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · 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.)