A treatise concerning the use and abuse of the marriage bed shewing I. the nature of matrimony, its sacred original, and the true meaning of its institution; II. the gross abuse of matrimonial chastity, from the wrong notions which have possessed the world, degenerating even to whoredom; III. the diabolical practice of attempting to prevent child-bearing by physical preparations; IV. the fatal consequences of clandestine or forced marriages, through the persuasion, interests, or influence of parents and relations, to wed the person they have no love for, but oftentimes an aversion to; V. of unequal matches, as to the disproportion of age, and how such, many ways, occasion a matrimonial whoredom; VI. how married persons may be guilty of conjugal lewdness, and that a man may, in effect, make a whore of his own wife : also, many other particulars of family concern
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Physical Description:
vi, [2], 406 p. ; (8vo)
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electronic - Publisher: London : Printed for T. Warner ..., 1727.
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General Note: | By Daniel Defoe. A reissue of Conjugal lewdness, of the same year, with a cancel titlepage. Pages 382-383 misnumbered 362-363. Errata--P. 406. Multi-User. |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital, c2007. (Defining gender, 1450-1910. Section I, Conduct and politeness). |
Location of Originals/Duplicates Note: | Bodleian Library |
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Subject: | Marriage -- Early works to 1800 Sexual ethics -- Early works to 1800 |