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Title I. Conjugal Right.

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Kant never married and there are many stories that paint him as a quirky but dour eccentric.

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24. The Natural Basis of Marriage.

Sexual intercommunity (commercium sexuale) is the use of the other's sexual members and faculties. This use is either natural, by which human beings may reproduce their own kind, or unnatural, which, again, refers either to a person of the same sex or to an animal of another species than man.

These transgressions of all law, as crimina carnis contra naturam [crimes of the flesh against nature], are even "not to be named"; and, as wrongs against all humanity in the person, they cannot be saved, by any limitation or exception whatever, from entire reprobation.

    This natural union of the sexes proceeds according to the mere animal nature (vaga libido [unsettled lust], venus vulgivaga [roving sexuality], fornicatio [fornication]), or according to the law.

The latter is marriage (matrimonium), which is the union of two persons of different sex for life