Against Julian 5.5.20

When it comes to sowing children, the members created for this work serve precisely at the will’s direction. Unless impediments arise from weakness or excess, they obey the mind’s command.

This kind of movement belongs among the many things in our body that, through their own order and hidden arrangement, require the will’s consent, not its command.

Like hunger, thirst, and digestion, they require the will’s consent, not its command.

I feel ashamed and am prevented by horror from speaking about such things, but compelled by necessity.