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enters the room, they sneak out of it; I imagine
they are afraid he will not take liberties enough, while they are there
to restrain him, so they are determined to give him full liberty
of conscience, by leaving him in the unlimited possession of the
Sanctum Sanctorum. Some wives pretend they cannot
persuade their husbands to be with them when delivered by men; it is because
they do not wish it, for they know how to persuade them out of a new gown,
whenever they please.
I have proved (from books written by men-midwives) that male practice
has been attended by a great deal of indecency, and instrumental
mischief; therefore if women will continue to employ men unnecessarily
in the absence of their husbands, and shallow pated husbands will
consent to it, they must take the certain consequences: such
couples, however, are well qualified to live among the Korakic Russians,
where custom requires husbands to prostitute their wives and daughters
to strangers out of very hospitality*: or in |
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| *see Le Brun's travels, |
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