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Offences Against One’s Self: Paederasty
To what class of offences shall we refer these irregularities of the venereal appetite which are
stiled unnatural? When hidden from the public eye there could be no colour for placing them any
where else: could they find a place any where it would be here. I have been tormenting myself for
years to find if possible a sufficient ground for treating them with the severity with which they are
treated at this time of day by all European nations: but upon the principle utility I can find none.
Offences of impurity–their varietys
The abominations that come under this heading have this property in common, in this respect, that
they consist in procuring certain sensations by means of an improper object. The impropriety then
may consist either in making use of an object
1. Of the proper species but at an improper time: for instance, after death.
2. Of an object of the proper species and sex, and at a proper time, but in an improper part.
3. Of an object of the proper species but the wrong sex. This is distinguished from the rest by the
name of paederasty.
4. Of a wrong species.
5. In procuring this sensation by one’s self without the help of any other sensitive object.
Paederasty makes the greatest figure
The third being that which makes the most figure in the world it will be proper to give that the
principal share of our attention. In settling the nature and tendency of this offence we shall for the
most part have settled the nature and tendency of all the other offences that come under this
disgusting catalogue.
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