Isehac, Sultan of Damascus, was in the habit of examining the interior of women's parts, and being warned not to do it he said, "Is there a pleasure preferable to this?" And thus before long he was blind.
The coitus after a full meal may occasion rupture of the intestines. It is also to be avoided after undergoing much fatigue, or at a time of very hot or very cold weather.
Amongst the accidents which may attend the act of coition in hot countries may be mentioned sudden blindness without any previous symptoms.
The repetition of the coitus without washing the parts ought to be shunned, as it may enfeeble the virile power.
The man must also abstain from copulation with his wife if he is in a state of legal impurity,[1] for if she become pregnant by such coition the child could not be sound.
After ejaculation do not remain close to the woman, as the disposition for recommencing will suffer by doing so.
Care is to be taken not to carry heavy loads on one's back or to over-exert the mind, if one does not want the coitus to be impeded. It is also not well to constantly wear vestments made of silk[2] as they impair all the en-
- ↑ Note in the autograph edition.—Legal impurity is due to different causes, enumerated by Sidi Khelil, in chap. i. of his "Religious Jurisprudence." The same disappears by ablution or by lotion. To give an example, I shall cite the following extract from that chapter. "The lotion is obligatory for any male person arrived at the age of puberty who has introduced only the gland of his verge, be it in carnal connection with a woman, or with an animal, or with a corpse, or (in case of malformation, or on account of flaccidity) who has thus introduced part of his verge to the length of the gland." (Translation of Perron.)
- ↑ It is probably owing to the great warmth developed by silk that the author thinks the wearing of silken stuffs to be injurious with respect to coition. It may, in fact, be admitted that they have that effect.
