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were only agreed to let sleeping dogs lie, and mind one’s own 
business. In real life, we have seen in our own times Oscar Wilde, 
Sir Charles Dilke, Parnell, Canon Aitken and countless others, 
many of them engaged in first-rate work for the world, all wasted, 
because the mob must make believe to be “moral.” This phrase 
abolishes the Eleventh Commandment, Not to be Found Out, by 
authorizing Incest, Adultery, and Paederasty, which everyone now 
practices with humiliating precautions, which perpetuate the 
schoolboy’s enjoyment of an escapade, and make shame, slyness, 
cowardice and hypocrisy the conditions of success in life.
It is also the fact that the tendency of any individual to sexual 
irregularity is emphasized by the preoccupation with the subject 
which follows its factitious importance in modern society.
It is to be observed that Politeness has forbidden any direct 
reference to the subject of sex to secure no happier result than to 
allow Sigmund Freud and others to prove that our every thought, 
speech, and gesture, conscious or unconscious, is an indirect 
reference!
Unless one wants to wreck the neighbourhood, it is best to 
explode one’s gunpowder in an unconfined space.
There are very few cases of “perverted hunger-instinct” in 
moderately healthy communities. War restrictions on food created 
dishonest devices to procure dainties, and artificial attempts to 
appease the ache of appetite by chemical counterfeits.
The South-Sea Islanders, pagan, amoral and naked, are tem­
perate lovers, free from hysterical “crimes of passion,” sex obses­
sions, and puritan persecution-mania; perversion is practically 
unknown, and monogamy is the general custom.
Even the civilized psychopaths of cities, forced into every kind 
of excess by the omnipresence of erotic suggestions and the 
contact of crazed crowds seething with suppressed sexuality, 
are not wholly past physic. They are no sooner released from the 
persistent pressure by escaping to some place where the inhab­
itants treat the reproductive and the respiratory organs as equally 
innocent than they begin insensibly to forget their “fixed 
idea” forced on them by the fog-horn of Morality, so that their