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, thro' the Persuasion, Interest, 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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Main Author: Defoe, Daniel 1661?-1731 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London printed for T. Warner, at the Black Boy in Pater-Noster-Row M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]
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Item Description:A reissue of 'conjugal lewdness' of the same year, with a cancel titlepage
Anonymous. By Daniel Defoe
English Short Title Catalog, T70647
Moore, 489
Pp.382-383 misnumbered 362-363. Variant p.298 misnumbered 288
Price from imprint: Price 5 s
Reproduction of original from British Library
Physical Description:Online-Ressource (vi, [2], 406 Seiten) 8°

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