PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION

The main criticism of “Love” by the reviewers of the first edition was directed against the frequency of Latin words and phrases used in veiling some of the more unpleasant aspects of the normal and especially the pathological sex-activities.

Still it was not prudery which dictated this course. The ancient language was used as a protection against the criticism of those who would take umbrage to plain sex expressions. There is quite a number of people who are not only possessed of the Oedipus complex or the Electra complex, but who are also obsessed of the obscenity complex. For the impure everything is impure. Fortunately such people’s knowledge of Latin is, as a rule, very slight, and for them this treatise will remain a sealed book. Physicians and lawyers for whom this book was written know enough Latin grammar, enabling them to apprehend the meaning of all those phrases necessary for the understanding of the main points of the treatise. To facilitate the reader’s task the following vocabulary of the Latin words often used has been appended.

ab initio from the outset

adduco uxi to induce

agitare to excite

aliquamdiu a little while

amatus lover

amicus friend

anser goose

ante before

aperio to open

apertus open

assiduus constant

aut or

auxilium help

aversa Venus by rectum

bis twice

braca trousers

caedo to ravish

canis dog

cito quick

coepio to begin

coire to cohabit

coitus cohabitation

collum neck

commaritus fellow-husband

commingo to urinate

commisco to copulate

commiscor to cohabitate

commixtio copulation

complexus venereus sexual intercourse

comprehendo get pregnant

compressio copulation

comprimo copulate

concarnatio coition

conceptare to get pregnant

conceptus conception

concubitalis copulative

concubitus cohabitation

concumbo cohabitate

congressio copulation

congressus coition

conjuga wife

conjugatio copulation

conjuges married couple

conjugium cohabitation

conjungo, xi to copulate

conjux husband

constuprare to abuse sexually

continuus continuous

contra against

corpus body

crinis hair

cubiculum bed-room

cubile nuptial bed

cum with

cunnilingus tongue-vagina

cupido desire

cupio to desire

delectatio deliciousness

delicia pleasures

dum while

ea she

ecclesia church

ejaculare to eject

ejectio discharge

eodemque tempore at the same time

exerceo to exercise

extraho to withdraw

facio, eci to make

fascinum penis, male organ

fellatio sucking (obscene)

fellatricia sucking (obscene)

femina woman

feminare to prostitute oneself

feminare se to masturbate

fornicatrix whore

fornix brothel

fricare to rub

gallina hen

genu knee

grabatus lounge

habeo to have

hora hour

hortus garden

humesco to become wet

humor moisture

illicio to excite

imitari to imitate

impedire to prevent

impeditare to prevent

impeditio prevention

inire to enter

initium outset

initus coition

injungo, se to cohabitate

insero to insert

insertio insertion

instar like

inter during

interula shirt

intromitto to introduce

jugiter continually

labium lip

lacesso to excite

lambo to lick

lentus slow

libido material pleasure

lingua tongue

ludo, usi to play

lumbus genitals

mamilla nipple

mamma breast

manus hand

marisca wart

marita wife

maritus husband

mater mother

membrum member

mentula male sex-organ

mentulatus erected

more after the fashion

meretricium, facere to be a prostitute

meretrix prostitute

muliebria female genitals

muliebris female

mulier woman

natis buttock

nono quoque die every nine days

nudatio denudation, baring

nudus naked

omnis every

ordo rei course of act

ovis sheep

paedicatio pederasty

paene almost

parvus small

perago to finish

pergo to continue

permulcio to touch

permulsio caress

pernoctare spend the night

pes, edis foot

pono, sui, itum to place

porca sow

porta door

posco, poposci to demand

positura position

post after

praebo mammas to suckle

praedium farm

praemo, essi to press

prostibulum brothel

pudibilia genitals

puella girl

puer boy

pulvilum pillow, small

pulvinus pillow

quot noctibus every night

resolvo to unbutton

scamnum bench

sella chair

sitis thirst

solvo to loose

spatium, temporis duration

statim at once

stupro manu to masturbate by hand

stupre in a lewd way

stuprum lewdness, prostitution, coition

stuprum facio to masturbate

stuprum manu self-abuse

stuprum mutuum mutual self-abuse

sugo to suck

suscipio to receive

suus, a um his, hers

tempus, poris time

tento to try

tergum back

tracto to touch

tractus the touch

traho to pull

unus one

ut as, that

verbero to whip, lash

vir the man

virilia male sex-organs

vita sexualis sex-life

vitium vice

volvula small vulva

With this small vocabulary on hand, the author hopes every college-bred man will be able to read this treatise without difficulty.

The Author.

New York, October, 1916.