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Paederasty
Religion
This is so true that according to the notions of these
moralists and these religionists, that is of the bulk of
moralists and religionists who write, pleasures that
are allow'd of, are never allow'd of for their own sake
but for the sake of something else which though termed
an advantage or a good presents not to any one
so obviously, and to them perhaps not at all the idea
of pleasure. If no such When the advantage ceases the
pleasure is condemned. Eating and drinking by good
luck are necessary to the preservation of the species; individual:
therefore eating and drinking are tolerated, and so
is the pleasure that attends these operations, the exercise of these functions, in as
far as it is necessary to that end: but if you to eat or
if you drink otherwise than or beyond what is thus
necessary, if you eat or drink for the sake of pleasure,
says the philosopher it is shameful, says
the religionist it is sinful. The gratification of
the venereal appetite is also by good luck, necessary
to the propa preservation of the species: therefore
it is tolerated in as far as it is necessary to that end,
not otherwise. Accordingly it has been a question seriously
debated, whether a man ought to permitt himself
the partaking of this enjoyment with his wife
when from age or any other circumstance there is
no hope of children: and it has often been decided
in the negative. For the same reason or some other
which is not apparent, it has been made for a man
to enjoy his wife at unreasonable time in certain systems of Laws had been made a
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