452. The lust of
fornication is grievous, so far as it looks to adultery, n. 453. The
lust of fornication is more grievous as it verges to the desire of
varieties and of defloration, n. 454. The sphere of the lust of
fornication, such as it is in the beginning, is a middle sphere between
the sphere of adulterous love and the sphere of conjugial love, and
makes an equilibrium, n. 455. Care is to be taken, lest by immoderate
and inordinate fornications conjugial love be destroyed, n. 456.
Inasmuch as the conjugial principle of one man with one wife is the
jewel of human life, and the reservoir of the Christian religion, n.
457, 458. With those who, from various reasons, cannot as yet enter into
marriage, and from their passion for the sex, cannot moderate their
lusts, this conjugial principle may be preserved, if the vague love of
the sex be confined to one mistress, n. 459. Keeping a mistress is
preferable to vague amours, provided only one be kept, and she be
neither a maiden nor a married woman, and the love of the mistress be
kept separate from conjugial love, n. 460.
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