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Previously banned 300-year-old 'secrets of sex manual' is up for sale and it has some utterly bizarre advice
"It includes woodcut illustrations of 'monsters' that 'are begot by Women's unnatural lying with Beasts' – an example being a woman 'generating with a dog'.
"There are several illustrations of beast-like creatures including a man sporting a bushy dog's tail and a monster being born in Ravenna, Italy, in 1512. This is blamed on 'filthy and corrupt affection'. But you have to bear in mind that this book was written when people were still being burnt for witchcraft in Georgian England."
"The book even claims parents' imaginations produce a child's features, and includes an illustration of a 'maid all hairy and an infant that was born black by the imagination of the parents'.
"In fact, if women cast their eyes on ill-shaped bodies, 'the force of imagination' could produce a child with 'a hairy lip, wry mouth or great blubber-lips'.
"Instead, during sex woman were urged to 'earnestly look upon the man and fix her mind upon him.' Then 'the child will resemble its father'."