Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

De toutes les aberrations sexuelles, la plus singulière est peut-être encore la chasteté.

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Remy de Gourmont, La Physique de l'Amour: Essai sur l'Instinct Sexuel (1903), ch. 18: La question des aberrations . | Remy de Gourmont, The Natural Philosophy of Love (1922), the Ezra Pound translation of La Physique de l'Amour: Essai sur l'Instinct Sexuel

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Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most curious is chastity.

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