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A treatise concerning the use and abuse of the marriage bed.

Title
A treatise concerning the use and abuse of the marriage bed.
Author
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Publication
  • [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [MDCCXXVII]
  • London : Printed for T. Warner, MDCCXXVII.

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1 online resource (vi, 406 pages).
Series Statement
Archives of Sexuality & Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
Uniform Title
Archives of Sexuality & Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.
Subject
  • Marriage > Early works to 1800
  • Sexual ethics > Early works to 1800
Note
  • "Errata."--Page 406, 2nd count.
  • Attributed to Daniel Defoe.
  • Reproduction of the originals from Kinsey Institute.
Contents
I. The nature of matrimony, its sacred original, and the true meaning of its institution -- II. The gross abuse of matrimonial chastity, from 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.
OCLC
  • 1113886893
  • AHSI002442
Author
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, author.
Title
A treatise concerning the use and abuse of the marriage bed.
Publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [MDCCXXVII]
Manufacturer
London : Printed for T. Warner, MDCCXXVII.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Series
Archives of Sexuality & Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
Archives of Sexuality & Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.
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