ONANISM
DISPLAY’D:
BEING,
I. An Enquiry into the true Nature of ONAN’S SIN.
II. Of the Modern Onanists.
III. Of Self-Pollution, its Causes, and Consequences; with three extraordinary Cases, of two Young Gentlemen and a Lady, who were very much Addicted to this Crime.
IV. Of Nocturnal-Pollutions Natural and Forc’d.
V. The Great Sin of Self-Pollution, with the Judgment of the most Eminent Divines upon this Subject.
VI. A Dissertation concerning Generation, with a curious Description of the Parts, and of their proper Functions, &c. according to the latest, and most approv’d Anatomical Discoveries.

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PREFACE.

The Reader will immediatelybe sensible, that I have beenled into the first part of this Treatiseupon tracing the Impositions and Inconsistenciesof the Author of a PamphletEntitled Onania; and for the latterpart it may be easily concluded to proceedfrom no other Motive, but theDictates of Nature.

It was impossible for an Authorof any Spirit, after a particulardescription of the unnatural use ofiithe Parts, that he could finish hisLabours without thoroughly examiningtheir admiral Structure: Theybeing no less curious than delightfulto a Youthful Swain, that’s fir’d withImagination.

The infinite number of fine Vesselsare pleasing in Representation, as wellas otherways Ravishing, and theNerves and Arteries are equallybeautiful, as they are transporting.The great and exquisite sense of theParts of Generation, give an Enjoymenttranscending all others; and theWisdom of our Creator, for the supportof the World, cannot be too sufficientlyadmir’d, in that Man is propagatedby an excess of Pleasure.

The following Treatise, I have byno means compos’d to give a looseto Debauchery. I have only persu’dthe common Rules of Anatomy inthis way of Writing, and interspers’da great variety of curious Observationsand natural Consequencesas yet unobserv’d, and I was naturallyiiiinduc’d to it more for the Informationof Mankind in general,than for the Sons of Æsculapius inparticular. The Gentleman of allRanks not superannuated, may findsome Pleasure in perusing it, and thefair Sex will meet with such ampleInstructions, as not to fail in thechoice of an agreeable Person, forthe amorous Combat.

For my Dissertation upon the Generationof Man, I am chiefly oblig