828. Men who desire above all else to deflower virgins, that is, who delight most of all to take virgins and rob them of their virginity, without any intention of marrying them and having a family, and who once they have robbed them of the flower of their virginity afterwards abandon them, regard them as nauseating, and make prostitutes of them, [undergo very severe punishment in the next life].^a Men who have pursued this kind of life undergo that punishment because they have behaved in a way contrary to natural, spiritual, and celestial order - contrary not only to conjugial love, which in heaven is upheld as most holy, but also to the innocence they injure and destroy by leading innocent young women who could be endowed with conjugial love into a life of prostitution. It is well known that it is the first flower of love which leads virgins into chaste conjugial love and joins together the minds of married partners. And because the holiness of heaven is based on conjugial love and on innocence, and men of this kind are inwardly murderers, they undergo very severe punishment in the next life. It seems to them as though they are seated on a horse that is frenzied, which tosses them up in the air so that they are thrown from the horse and their life seemingly put in peril, such is the terror struck into them. After that it appears to them as though they are under the belly of the frenzied horse, and then it seems to them as though they pass by way of the horse's hindquarters into its belly. At this point it suddenly seems to them as if they are inside the belly of a filthy prostitute. The prostitute changes into a large dragon, and there they stay enveloped in torment. This punishment is repeated many times, over hundreds and thousands of years, until they are filled with horror for such desires. Concerning their offspring I have been told that these are worse than other people's children, for they derive something of a like heredity from their fathers. This also is why infants are rarely born from the sexual union of such persons, and those who are do not live very long in this world.

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