A treatise concerning the use and abuse of the marriage bed : shewing I. the nature of matrimony, its sacred original, and the true meaning of its institution; II. the gross abuse of matrimonial chastity, from the 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, through the persuasion, interests, 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.

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Uniform Title:Conjugal lewdness
Defining gender, 1450-1910. Conduct and politeness. Section 1,
Main Author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Corporate Authors: Bodleian Library
Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)
Language:English
Published: London : Printed for T. Warner ..., 1727.
Series:Defining gender, 1450-1910. Conduct and politeness.
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Physical Description:vi, 2 unnumbered pages, 406 pages ; (8vo)
Format: Electronic eBook

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