enough to declare my inclination, I amused it as least by ideas in connection with it. One may judge what such avowals must have cost me, considering that all through my life, seized in the presence of those I loved by the fury of a passion which bereft me of voice, hearing and sense, and made me tremble all over convulsively, I never could venture to tell them my folly, and ask them to add the one familiarity which I wanted to the other ones. I only got to it once in my childhood, with another child of my age, and the proposal came from her.” However to return to our proper subject, from which we have strayed. If pleasure felt by the passive party cannot be conceived to be of a kind, which through the anus is communicated to the mentula (member), we must come to the conclusion that the _patient_ experiences in the anus the same kind of irritation which the other party feels in his genital parts; that, therefore, the _patient_ feels in that place a real pleasure unknown to those who have not tried it[24]. Martial at any rate speaks out without any circumlocution of this rut of the anus: “Of his anus, split to the naval, not a vestige is left to Carinus; for all that he is in rut to the very navel. Oh! the scurvy lot of the wretch! Bottom he has none,—but he _will_ be a cinede” (VI., 37). An ardour of this strange sort even affected Tullia, as she confesses herself in the pages of Aloysia Sigaea: “Seeing resistance was in vain, I yielded to the madmen. Aloysio bends forward over my buttocks, brings his javelin to the back-door, knocks, pushes, finally with a mighty effort bursts in. I gave a groan. Instantly he withdraws his weapon from the wound, plunges it in the vulva and spurts a flood of semen into the wanton furrow of my womb. When all was over, Fabrizio attacks me in the same fashion. With one rapid thrust he introduced his spear, and in less than no time made it disappear in my entrails; for a little time he plays at come and go, and scarce credible as it may sound, I found myself invaded by a prurient fury to such an extent that I have no doubt, that I should get accustomed to it very well, if I chose” (Dialogue VI). Coelius Rhodiginus confirms this pruriency of the anus in ch. 10. of XV. book of his _Lectiones antiquae_. “We know”, he says, “that the minions experience a very great pleasure in undergoing this shameful act.”