Harmful aspects of copulation

Copulation removes part of the substance of the last nourishment and, as it weakens, as no other evacuation weakens, it also, due to voluptuousness, removes a significant part of the substance of the pneuma. Therefore, the most voluptuous people weaken the most. Truly, copulation quickly leads to a person who abuses it, cooling and drying out the body, dissipating innate warmth and exhausting strength. They first excite a smoky warmth foreign to the body, so that the person has more hair, and then follows a complete cooling and weakening of the sense of sight and hearing. Coitus causes weakness and pain in the legs, so that a person can hardly bear the weight of his body; sometimes his condition even resembles a latent epilepsy. Often the body of such a person is overcome by black and then yellow bile and he feels dizzy from weakness and as if goosebumps are crawling through the members of the body, starting from the head and up to most of the spine; He also has ringing in the ears. Acute, burning fevers often arise from too private copulation, due to which people die. Sometimes this causes trembling, weakness of the tendons, insomnia and bulging eyes, as happens during agony, as well as baldness, cold illnesses, pain in the back, kidneys and bladder, and a blocked stomach. Sometimes private copulation generates kulanj and causes foul odor and stench from the mouth and gums. In a person who has bile juices in his body, “goose bumps” begin to move after copulation, and if the juices in his body are putrefactive, then after copulation he gives off a foul odor. In people with weak digestion, rumbling occurs after copulation.

Some people suffer from a bad nature, and if they avoid intercourse, they feel melancholy and heaviness in the body and in the head, become irritated and often have an involuntary discharge of semen; if they indulge in copulation, then their stomach becomes weak and dry. It is best to abstain from intercourse for someone who is attacked by trembling and cold after it, or hidden shortness of breath and interruptions, the eyes are sunken and the appetite for food disappears, as well as someone who has a sore or weak chest or a weak stomach. Stopping copulation is the best thing for people with weak stomachs, and let those women who miscarry avoid it. There are bad ways of intercourse, such as when a woman lies on top of a man; this is a harmful way of copulation, because because of it you can be afraid of a hernia, as well as swelling and ulcers in the canal of the penis and bladder due to a sharp eruption of semen; at the same time, something from the woman’s genital organs easily flows into the penis canal.

Know that retaining the seed and delaying its release is very harmful, and this sometimes leads to retraction of one of the testicles. You should not have intercourse when you feel the need to pass feces or urine, or after physical exercise or movement, or after strong emotional experiences.

Sex with boys is disgusting, according to most, and prohibited by Sharia law. On the one hand, they are more harmful, and on the other, more harmless than copulation with a woman: on the one hand, nature forces more intense movements in order for the seed to be released, and this is more harmful; on the other hand, the semen is not ejaculated as abundantly as during copulation with a woman, and this is less harmful. Following this in relation to the assessment of harmfulness is intercourse outside the vagina.