Manual of Classical Erotology (De figuris Veneris)

SO much for copulation in the normal way. We will now discuss another mode of pleasure,—that due to introduction of the member into the anus. A man who exercises his member in t...

TO put the member in erection into another’s mouth is called to _irrumate_, a word, which in its proper sense means to give the breast; in fact, according to _Nonius_, p. 579 (G...

THE tribads, also called frictionists[116] from the Greek ****, I rub, are women, with whom that part of the genital apparatus which is called the clitoris, attains such proport...

WE have now said enough about the work of Venus performed by the virile member; it remains for us to explain how a sacrifice may be offered to Venus without one. This may be don...

AND first of all let us consider what is accomplished by means of the mentula introduced into the vulva. This is, properly speaking, to effect copulation; but there are various...

TO excite the member by friction with the hand until the sperm comes spirting out of it is what the Ancients call masturbation, from _masturbare_, that is _manu stuprare_,—to po...

IN the sundry kinds of voluptuous enjoyment which we have studied so far, there are almost always only two persons in action. It happens, nevertheless, that more than two, three...

IT will not be out of place to say something here of the incontinence of those who have carried out carnal intercourse with animals. It appears that in Egypt the Mendesians, who...