The penchant for sodomy is the result of physical formation, towhich we contribute nothing and which we cannot alter. At the mosttender age, some children reveal that penchant, and it is nevercorrected in them. Sometimes it is the fruit of satiety; but evenin this case, is it less Nature's doing? Regardless of how it isviewed, it is her work, and, in every instance, what she inspiresmust be respected by men. If, were one to take an exact inventory,it should come out that this taste is infinitely more affectingthan the other, that the pleasures resulting from it are far morelively, and that for this reason its exponents are a thousand timesmore numerous than its enemies, would it not then be possible toconclude that, far from affronting Nature, this vice serves herintentions, and that she i
