Footnotes:
[1] The Origin of Sexual Modesty, by Edward Westermarck.
[2] Vide R. V. Jellyman (1838) 8 C and P, 604.
[3] Until recently incest was not a civil offence.
[4] The second object of marriage is declared to be “a remedy against sin...; that such persons as have not the gift of continency marry and keep themselves undefiled members of Christ’s body.”
[5] 1 Cor. vii. 8, 9. “Burn” means sex-obsession as mentioned on page 38.
[6] “Where the decree Tametsi of the Council of Trent has not been proclaimed, marriage is constituted by mere consent freely exchanged between persons who are by natural and canonical law competent and able to intermarry.”—Geary’s Marriage and Family Relations. (Now altered by Ne temere-decree, but the principle remains.)
[7] We have already commented on the strange inconsistency of regarding the sex-act as evil per se outside marriage, and as a virtue in marriage.
[8] I am using “celibacy” to imply complete physical chastity.