APPENDIX TO the CHAPITRE II

Note 1. - OVIDE, _Art to like ( love ? ). _Livre III.

Ovide sees in the different attitudes only a means of coquetry for the beautiful.

That the women he says, learn to know to offer itself with all the advantages to the fights of the love.

If you shine with the beauty of your lines ( features ? ), go to bed on the back; if you have one croup elegant woman, present it to eyes quite the wealth. If your legs are made well, place on the shoulders of your lover, as Mélanion put on the shoulders the legs of Alalante. If you are of small size, if your lover fills ( performs ? ) delivery boy's role. The one which cuts her ( it ? ) has sensual inflections will press the knees on the bed, by tilting slightly the head. The one thighs of which have the firm beauty of the youth, bosoms of which have a graceful curvature, will go to bed obliquely on the bed in a way that his ( her ? ) lover, standing near her, sees her ( it ? ) in this charming position.

The one sides of which carry ( wear ? ) the tracks of the works of Lucine will fight ( dispute ? ) as Parthe, sour back.

Venus, the mother of the courtship, knows how to about it vary the games in different ways; but the simplest and the least tiring position, is to extend over the right-hand side.

Déjazet was in the habit of sleeping on the back, because, she said, « arrive who ( which ? ) plants! »

Note 2. - Theologians.

P. Gury, art. 997. - The purposes which make honest the conjugal act are:

1 ° The generation which is one of the main clauses;

2 ° The means to satisfy the obligations between husband ( couple ? );

3 ° The means to prevent ( warn ? ) the incontinence at the couple;

4 ° The desire to animate ( stimulate ? ) or to create an honest love, to show or to provoke the conjugal disorder ( affection ? ).

( We can notice that the last two purposes legitimize all the natural pleasures between husband ( couple ? ), even sterile by the fact of their natural conformation).

Art. 911. - The completely licit position is the one that the nature teaches itself; that is, the woman slept below and the man above (to make the animal for two backs, as says Rabelais).

No position, although against nature, is defended ( forbidden ? ), as a rule, seriously, if the conjugal act can be carried out, because there is no obstacle to the generation.

Any position against nature, taken for a justifiable motive, is exempt from fault; because, sometimes, these positions are more convenient or only possible; and any convenience or necessity can make legitimate this infringement, light in itself, to the natural order.

Art. 912. - It can arrive for various causes, even that of the coolness, when we are more incited in this position.

If the man, says Sanchez, cannot be brought to know his wife except in a certain position, which will doubt that the woman is anxious to take her ( it ? )?

The position, whatever it is, is condemned in no way, if it is the only possible.

It is also the opinion of holy Thomas and several other big theologians, notably as regards the position in retro.

Note 3. - The men ( people ? ) of the art.

Doctor Debay, _Hygiène of the man and the woman ._

Any attitudes favorable to the fertilization are allowed, all those who put it obstacle must be banned. So the sat, painless ( sat, idle;based, painless;based, idle ? ), lazy attitudes often evade the purpose of the nature. The straight ( right ? ) attitude is we cannot any more tiring, it exposes ( explains ? ) the man to grave accidents, for example convulsive shivers and paralyses in legs in the second youth.

The posture in retro must be recommended in the state of pregnancy or obesity of the woman and when the virile member has no required length.

When this one is too long, he can hurt ( damage ? ) the neck of the womb and the man has to limit his introduction by means of a bourrelet.

Today we apply to the root of the yard, before the erection, a rubber hollow ring of the nécesaire length; it is also easy to put as to remove. In its defect, says Venête (Cologne 1696), the woman can replace him ( it ? ) pleasantly by the hand.