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205 occupied by a woman, because the vibrations are left there and they excite the passion. Sitting on a seat or any place is meant.
4. He should not look with a lustful eye or in the spirit of lust on those parts of a woman's body which are factors in arousing the passion.
5. He should not remain in a room next to one in which a man and wife are in bed together if the wall is thin enough for him to hear or know or guess what is going on, because it will arouse thoughts of passion.
6. He should not bring to mind the sexual enjoyment he had with his wife in former days.
7. He should avoid taking foods which are exciting or intoxicating or stimulating, especially things that are very oily, containing too much fat, because they produce passion.
8. Even non-exciting and non-stimulating food should not be taken in excess, he should not gorge himself, because a too great quantity of food will produce passion.
9. He should not embellish his body.
All the foregoing remarks apply equally to women, although they are worded for men. Partial Transgressions
1. For a person who has taken the second part of the vow, to have intercourse with any girl or woman who is not the wife of somebody, would be to soil the vow.
2. And so it would if such a person hires a woman for a time.
3. Dwelling upon the desire or intercourse, or gratifying the desire in any unnatural or any artificial way; these are partial transgressions; they are crimes against his own soul.
4. Giving away another person's daughter in marriage; or helping or causing another person to get married. This is transgressing because you are doing things which further the act or exercise of sex passion, which passion is the basis of marriage.
5. Intense desire for sexual intercourse. But this is from a different point of view from the third illustration. Here it means constantly looking at woman with that lustful eye. It would also include continuing in the act after it is over. And it would include
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