Commentary for Shevuot 35:13

אמר ליה רבה בר חנן לאביי אם כן מצינו ארוכה וקצרה בנדה

If i is because he has no alternative, then even if he withdraws immediately, let him also be exempt, for he has no alternative!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If you say that he is liable if he commits incest with membrum mortuum, then there is no difference between passive and virile member, so that he should be exempt even if he is withdraws forthwith.');">²⁹</span> - Abaye said to him: Verily, I may say to you, he who commits incest with membrum mortuum is liable, and here the reason that he is exempt is because he has no alternative, and as for your question, if he withdraws immediately, why is he liable? [I may reply,] because he should have withdrawn with little pleasure, and he withdrew with much pleasure. Said Raba B'Hanan to Abaye: If so, we find a longer and a shorter route in connection with a menstruant.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If he took the shorter route, i.e., withdrew immediately, he is liable; and if the longer route, i.e., waited till it was passive, he is exempt.');">³⁰</span>

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