_I doubt not but this small_ TREATISE _may put some Persons upon a previous Examination of Robust Females, that they may be at a certainty with respect to mutual Enjoyment; but I would not have them rashly conclude from large Appurtenances only, that they are unnatural, but, on the contrary, agreeable Companions._ _To conclude, I fear not the Censure of_ HERMAPHRODITES, _nor of those that would be such to satisfy their vicious Inclinations; neither am I under any apprehensions from the Censure of our Reforming Zealots_. * * * * * _Tractatus de Hermaphroditis_: OR, A TREATISE OF HERMAPHRODITES. The Secrets of Nature have in all Ages been particularly examin'd by Anatomists and others, and this of _Hermaphrodites_ is so very wonderful, that I am perfectly assur'd my present Enquiry will be entirely acceptable to all Lovers of curious Discoveries; and as it is my immediate Business to trace every Particular for an ample Dissertation on the Nature of _Hermaphrodites_, (which obliges me to a frequent Repetition of the Names of the Parts employ'd in the Business of Generation) so, I hope, I shall not be charg'd with Obscenity, since in all Treatises of this Kind it is impossible to finish any one Head compleatly, without pursuing the Methods of Anatomical Writings. Though in _Ovid_'s _Metamorphosis_, _Salmacis_'s being in Love with _Hermaphroditus_, and not succeeding in her amorous Wishes, her praying to the Gods to join their Bodies in one, has no Weight in it; yet, that the Notions of Hermaphrodites are not entirely fictitious, I need only mention the Servant of _Montuus_, who took his Hermaphrodite to be a Male when he lay with his Maids, and for a Female when she lay with her Husband to propagate their Species, the two Hermaphrodites of _Licetus_, and the Story of _Ausonius_, which he relates of an Hermaphrodite of _Bonavento_ in _Italy_; and Histories are full of Confirmations, that many Persons in the World have had the privy Parts of both Sexes. For the Definition of the Word Sex, it is no other than a Distinction of Male and Female, in which this is most observable, that for the Parts of the Body, there is but little Difference between them; but the Females are colder than the Males, and abound with more superfluous Moisture; wherefore their spermatick Parts are more soft and humid, and all their natural Actions more vigorous than those of Men: But Hermaphrodites are a mixture of both Sexes, and to both incompleat.