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ONANISM
DISPLAY’D:
BEING,
I. An Enquiry into the true Nature of ONAN’S SIN.
II. Of the Modern Onanists.
III. Of Self-Pollution, its Causes, and Consequences; with three extraordinary Cases, of two Young Gentlemen and a Lady, who were very much Addicted to this Crime.
IV. Of Nocturnal-Pollutions Natural and Forc’d.
V. The Great Sin of Self-Pollution, with the Judgment of the most Eminent Divines upon this Subject.
VI. A Dissertation concerning Generation, with a curious Description of the Parts, and of their proper Functions, &c. according to the latest, and most approv’d Anatomical Discoveries.
Made English from the Paris Edition.
The Second Edition.
LONDON:
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PREFACE.
The Reader will immediately be sensible, that I have been led into the first part of this Treatise upon tracing the Impositions and Inconsistencies of the Author of a Pamphlet Entitled Onania; and for the latter part it may be easily concluded to proceed from no other Motive, but the Dictates of Nature.