Voluptuaries of all ages, of every sex, it is to you only that I offer this work; nourish yourselves upon
its principles: they favor your passions, and these passions, whereof coldly insipid moralists put you in
fear, are naught but the means Nature employs to bring man to the ends she prescribes to him;
hearken only to these delicious Promptings, for no voice save that of the passions can conduct you
to happiness.
Lewd women, let the voluptuous Saint-Ange be your model; after her example, be heedless of all
that contradicts pleasure's divine laws, by which all her life she was enchained.
You young maidens, too long constrained by a fanciful Virtue's absurd and dangerous bonds and by
those of a disgusting religion, imitate the fiery Eugénie; be as quick as she to destroy, to spurn all
those ridiculous precepts inculcated in you by imbecile parents.