A Modest Defence of Publick Stews; Or, an Essay Upon Whoring. as It Is Now Practis'd in These Kingdoms. by the Late Colonel Harry Mordaunt (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1740 edition. Excerpt: ...they have frequently Evacuations without an Erection, yet the common and ordinary Sensation, which Females afford to those Parts, is not able of itself to promote this Evacuation; so that they are impotent to all Intents and Purposes of Generation. 'So. To put a Stop therefore to the clandestine Practises, and prevent young Men from laying violent Hands upon themselves, we must have Recourse to the Publick Stews, which cannot fail to have the desired Effect: For which of these private Practitioners can be so brutish, as to prefer this boyish, solitary Amusement, before the actual Embraces of a fine Woman, when they can proceed with the fame Convenience, Safety, and Privacy, in the one, as well as the other. In the next Place, Men are often weaken'd, and sometimes contract almost incurable Gleets, by too frequent and immoderate Enjoyment: This seldom or never happens but in private Whoring, when some particular Mistress has made such a strong Impression upon a Man's Fancy, that Ke exerts himself in an extraordinary Manner beyond his natural Ability, and thereby contracts a Seminal Weakness, which is generally more difficult to cure than a virulent Running. Now this Danger will be pretty well rempv'd by the Encouragement given to Publick IVboring, which, as I shall shew more particularly hereafter, will divert Mens Minds, and turn their Thoughts very much from private Intrigues: And it will be readily granted me, that no such Excess is to be seared in Publick Stews; where a Man only acting but of a general Principle of Love to the whole Sex, will be in no Danger of proceeding any farther than he is prompted by Nature and the particular Disposition of his Body at that Time. As for the third Cause of Impotency, the Venereal Disease, we have already...