The soul is the prison of the body.

Let us sin then, and sin to infinity.

The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.

Homosexuality appears as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species.

What is important is that sex was not only a question of sensation and pleasure, of law and interdiction, but also of the true More >