I see not much difference between ourselves & the Turks, save that we have foreskins and they none, that they have long dresses an...d we short, and that we talk much and they little. In England the vices in fashion are whoring & drinking, in Turkey, sodomy and smoking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perve...rsion and they are nowise different from one another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, wi...thout any of the sentiments that are dear to us.... Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm--as in abortion, sodomy, pro...stitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one an...d unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »