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. ... 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.

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. ... 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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Author / Creator:	Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Uniform title:	Conjugal lewdness
Imprint:	London : printed for T. Warner, at the Black Boy in Pater-Noster-Row, M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]
Description:	vi, [2], 406 p. ; 8°.
Language:	English
Series:	Eighteenth Century ; reel 8895, no.06.
Subject:	Marriage -- Early works to 1800. Sexual ethics -- Early works to 1800. Essays -- England -- 18th century.
Format:	Microform Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4265504

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Notes:	Anonymous. By Daniel Defoe. A reissue of 'conjugal lewdness' of the same year, with a cancel titlepage. Pp.382-383 misnumbered 362-363. Variant p.298 misnumbered 288. Moore 489 Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 8895, no.06).

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