The mysteries of conjugal love reveal'd / written in French by Nicholas de Venette. Done into English [and abridged] by a gentleman.

  • Nicolas Venette
Date:
1712
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Credit: The mysteries of conjugal love reveal'd / written in French by Nicholas de Venette. Done into English [and abridged] by a gentleman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ou finds and plenty, caufes thofe monthly Flowings from the Arteries of the Womb. C H A P. ir. Of the Natural Proportion and Defech^ of the Geni¬ tal Parts of both Sexes. IF we did but obferve what pafleth every day in the World amongft the moft perfed Creatures, in refpeff to Generation, we might find that God, or, (if you will) Nature, which is the Univerfai Organ of his Power, has given to every Species different Parts to perpetuate themfelves. As alio that fome Parts receive others when they Copulate. The Genitals of Females are not form’d by chance. The Souls of Brutes, and Intelligences in Women, make up the attire of the privy Parts of both Sexes, by the order of Nature. The Intelligence (or if you pleafe to fpeak other- wile,) the Soul created by God, and afterwards placed in the little Body of a Chinefe., in the mid¬ dle of China, to make ule of this Example, chufes in the Body of its Mother, after Conception, the moft proportionable matter for the forming of fuch parrs, as muft one day contribute towards Genera¬ tion. There is no occafion for a Pattern, it is fuf- ficient to execute the defigns of Nature, and to keep the Meafures and Proportions, which is ne- ceffary for the figure of the privy Parts of the Man that is to be born. The Intelligence therefore places thofe parts in their natural fituation, aud makes a ftrift union between all the Compound, in order to render them ferviceable when occafion fhail ferve. Another Intelligence of the fame nature with the former, is bufy in Fran, to chufe a Matter in the Woman’s Intrails that has conceived, that is moft difpofed for the forming of a Girl, it a£ts fo well upon
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