Note DA — Chapter XXI · SEX-HYGIENE FOR ADULTS

In a general way Hesiod advises never to practise concarnatio on the return home from a funeral, but rather after having enjoyed a good comedy, for the semen transfers cheerfulness as well as sorrow and other affections to the offspring. For the same reason concubitus should be avoided when in a state of intoxication. Diogenes said to a stupid boy: “My son, thy father was drunk when thy mother conceived thee.”