In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.
Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.
After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.
Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.
Perversity depends on reversal and substitution.
The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.