[CN] Premature union means loss for the child, says Ellen Key; it may arrest in their growth countless excellent forces. Woman’s nature does not attain its full spiritual maturity before about the age of thirty.
[CO] During pregnancy the prone position is the one least injurious to the child. In the later months, it is sometimes the only position possible.
[CP] Brehem reports that in the Sudan the woman stands in initu, bends over and places her hands on her knees.
Among the Kamtschadals maritus maritaque jacent in lateribus.
Some of the Australian tribes exercent compressionem in a squatting position.
[CQ] The question of frequency was a matter of solicitude to many ancient legislators. Zoroaster requires as the minimum frequency to secure a sufficient gratification mulieri una congressio nono quoque die; Solon three times a month; Mohammed requires once a week, otherwise the woman shall have cause for divorce.
[CR] Among young married people it is often the wife who is more exacting than the husband. The sensations are entirely new to her and she demands their repetition so often till the male erections fail to perform their part.
[CS] The mental faculties suffer most under excesses. The Talmud says that the brain dries up through excesses in venere and masturbation. The symptoms of cerebrasthenia e abusu sexuali, says Hegar, is pressure in the head, inability to do continuous mental work and to concentrate one’s thoughts, which involuntarily continue to stray upon the sexual sphere, lack of mental energy, hypochondria and insomnia.
The eyes of the patients are disturbed by light. They fear light in such a degree that reading after a short time has to be interrupted. Mooren reports the case of an American lady who, manu stupri causa from her early youth, could not even stand the lustre of another person’s eye.
Weber found that, excessive congressus, especially in the female sex, has an unfavorable influence upon the organ of hearing. The accompanying symptoms are pains in the vertebral column, in the region of the last pectoral and the first lumbar vertebrae.