First, there is the man who is crookbacked, but whose spine and neck are straight. For him it is most convenient to unite himself with a little woman, but not otherwise than from behind. Placing himself behind her posterior, he thus introduces his member into her vulva. But if the woman is in a stooping attitude, on her hands and feet, he will do still better. If the woman be afflicted with a hump and the man is straight, the same position is suitable.

If both of them are crookbacked they can take what position they like for coition. They cannot, however, embrace; and if they lie on their side, face to face, there will be left an empty space between them. And if one or the other lies down on the back, a cushion must be placed under the head and the shoulder, to hold them up, and fill the place which is left vacant.

In the case of a man whose malformation affects only his neck, so as to press his chin towards his chest, but who is otherwise straight, he can take any position he likes for doing the business, and give himself up to any embraces and caresses, always excepting kisses on the mouth. If the woman is lying on her back, he will appear in action as if he were butting at her like a ram. If the woman has her neck deformed in similar manner, their coition will resemble the mutual attack of two horned beasts with their heads. The most convenient position fur them will be that the woman should stoop down, and he attack her from behind. The man whose hump appears on his back in the shape of only the half of a jar is not so much disfigured as the one of whom the poet has said:

Lying on his back he is a dish;
Turn him over, and you have a dish-cover

If a little woman is lying on her back, with a humpbacked man upon her belly, he will look like the cover over a vase. If, on the contrary, the woman is large-sized, he will have the appearance of a carpenter's plane in action. I have made the following verses on this subject:

The humpback is vaulted like an arch;
And seeing him you cry, `Glory be to God!'
You ask him how he manages in coitus?
`It is the retribution for my sins,' he says.
The woman under him is like a board of deal;
The humpback, who explores her, does the planing.

The humpback's dorsal cord is tied in knots,
The Angels tire with writing all his sins;
In trying for a wife of proper shape,
And for her favours, she repulses him,
And says, `Who bears the wrongs we shall commit?'
And he, `I bear them well upon my hump!'
And then she mocks him saying, `Oh, you plane
Destined for making shavings! Take a deal board!'

If the man is humped both on back and chest he must renounce the embrace and the clinging, but can otherwise take any position he likes for coition. Yet generally speaking, the action must always be troublesome for himself and the woman. I have written on this subject:

The humpback engaged in the act of coition
Is like a vase provided with two handles.
If he is burning fur a woman, she will tell him,
`Your hump is in the way; you cannot do it;
Your verge would find a place to rummage in,
But on your chest the hump where would it be?'