[CS] The mental faculties suffer most under excesses. The Talmud says that the brain dries up through excesses in venere and masturbation. The symptoms of cerebrasthenia e abusu sexuali, says Hegar, is pressure in the head, inability to do continuous mental work and to concentrate one’s thoughts, which involuntarily continue to stray upon the sexual sphere, lack of mental energy, hypochondria and insomnia. The eyes of the patients are disturbed by light. They fear light in such a degree that reading after a short time has to be interrupted. Mooren reports the case of an American lady who, manu stupri causa from her early youth, could not even stand the lustre of another person’s eye. Weber found that, excessive congressus, especially in the female sex, has an unfavorable influence upon the organ of hearing. The accompanying symptoms are pains in the vertebral column, in the region of the last pectoral and the first lumbar vertebrae. Mackenzie says that excesses in venere may lead to inflammations of the nasal mucous membrane, to epistaxis and to abnormal sensations of smelling. [CT] This explains why so many middle-aged men have no other aim in life except to make money and spend it on frivolities, and why so many women turn their minds to mere fads and sheer inanities; whose minds harbor only one thought, dress, and who worship only one divinity—the goddess of fashion. [CU] The young bride entering the bridal chamber a pure virgin, says Ribbing, is not prepared for the things to come as is her husband. In any case, she somewhat fears the changed conditions and surroundings. [CV] Even among barbarians women were taboo and considered unclean during the catamenial period. Concarnatio was strictly prohibited. The Mosaic law declares the menstruating woman unclean for seven days. Likewise the man, qui comprimebat a menstruating woman, was considered unclean for seven days. [CW] A confinement, says Freund, is a menstruation in which a perfectly developed ovum is expelled. [CX] Trousseau says, conjugal congressus is not injurious to nurse and nursling, provided it is regulated by great moderation. [CY] Garnier consulit ut manus mariti voluptarie titillet mammas et alias rotundas partes mulieris. These caresses convey to the spirits of both mates the most vivid excitation, which hasten and induce ejaculation. Ovid gives the same advice. “Nec manus in lecto laeva jacebit iners. “Invenient digiti quod agant in partibus illis. “In quibus occulte spicula tangit Amor.” It is known that Vanswieten gave the following advice to Empress Maria Theresia who was childless in the beginning of her married life. “Ego vero censeo, vulvam Sanctissimae Majestatis ante coitum diutius esse titillandam.”