"There are two main reasons for which people fall into the sin of luxuria. It may be through sheer exuberance of animal spirits... or-and this commonly happens in periods of disillusionment like our own, when philosophies are bankrupt and life appears without hope-men and womenmay turn to lust in sheer boredom and discontent, trying to find in it some stimulus that is not provided by the drag discomfort of their mental and physical surrounding... it is as though one were to endeavour to cure anemia by bleeding... the mournful and medical aspect of twentieth-century pornography and promiscuity strongly suggests that we have reached one of these periods of spiritual depression where people go to bed because they have nothing better to do"
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Dorothy L. Sayers