Note 628 — 2. RAPE.
Reading edition
An important question here arises as to what shall be legally called Semen, for the secretion emitted is composed of parts, the smaller portion of which only possesses the generative faculty.
It appears from the experiments and observations of our most accurate physiologists, that the fluid expelled in copulation is furnished in a small proportion only by the Testes; that to this a peculiar secretion of the Vesiculæ Seminales is added, and that the chief bulk is made up of the Prostatic liquor, or secretion from the prostate gland; so that the fact of emission in Eunuchs is not extraordinary, although the discharged fluid cannot be said to be Seminal.