"Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest."
— Anatole France

January 1, 1970

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Variant: Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most curious is chastity. — Remy de Gourmont, The Natural Philosophy of Love (1922), the Ezra Pound translation of La Physique de l'Amour: Essai sur l'Instinct Sexuel