Rare verities.: The cabinet of Venus unlocked, and her secrets laid open. : Being a translation of part of Sinibaldus, his Geneanthropeia, and a collection of some things out of other Latin authors, never before in English.
- Title
- Rare verities.: The cabinet of Venus unlocked, and her secrets laid open. : Being a translation of part of Sinibaldus, his Geneanthropeia, and a collection of some things out of other Latin authors, never before in English.
- Author
- Sinibaldi, Giovanni Benedetto, 1594-1658.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for P. Briggs, at the Dolphin in St Pauls Church-yard,
- 1658.
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- Human reproduction
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Contents
- title page
- To the Amorous READERS.
- An Epistle to his Friend concerning the publish∣ing his Book.
- His Friends Reply.
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Concerning the Name of
VENUS. - What is Copulation?
- What is Venereal love.
- Through what part is love at first received in.
- Who are they which are most apt to be in love?
- Concerning those things that increase love.
- Whether Love may be cured by medicaments.
- Concerning Love-potions or Philters.
- Whether females may change their Sex.
- Which is most lustfull, a man or a beast.
- Which of the two is most lustfull, a Man or a Woman.
- Which is most lustfull, a Maid or a Woman?
- The signes and marks of lustfulness from a mans temperament, age, disposition of body, and his Coun∣trey.
- The signs of lustfulness from the sta∣ture, colour, strength, and season of the year.
- Signs of lustfulness from diseases.
- Concerning Satyriasis.
- Physiognomical signs of lust.
- Examples of such Men and Women that have been very lustfull and lecherous.
- At what age is a wife to be chosen, that she might be fit for ge∣neration.
- Concerning a mans Genitals, and of their apt conformation.
- From whence proceeds the erection of the Yard.
- Whether a too long or a too short Yard be obnoxious to generation.
- How to inlarge the pudenda to a fit proportion, in case it be neither long, nor thick enough.
- How to shorten the Yard being too long.
- Of venereal impotency.
- Concerning some men that have had wonderful great Genitals.
- Some questions concerning the Pudenda.
- Concerning the excellency, vertue, and temper of the stones.
- What may be the reason that though a man loveth a woman extraordi∣nary well, yet after the injoy∣ment of her his love grows cold.
- Concerning castrating Men and Women.
- A particular relation of such things as will increase seed and lust.
- A brief description of a Womans Genitalls.
- Concerning the Clytoris.
- How to contract the Vulva being too large and wide.
- What is that which is infringed at the first venereal act; as also some signs of Virginity.
- Whether there be any Signs of cor∣rupted virginity.
- Concerning night-pollutions.
- He that intends copulation, ought to be free from turbulent passions of the mind, and vain phantasmes.
- Whether to copulate backwards after the manner of beasts is best.
- Concerning pendulous venery, us also many other phantastical ve∣nereal postures.
- Whether there are Pigmies, and how they are generated.
- Whether there were and are Giants, and whence have they their original.
- Of the good and of the bad that comes by Venery.
- Why are young men the more delight∣ed in Venery, by how much the more they use it.
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Concerning the Name of
- The INDEX of the seve∣ral subjects contained in this Book.