“Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of.”
Source: Eyeless in Gaza
“Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.”
De toutes les aberrations sexuelles, la plus singulière est peut-être encore la chasteté.
Remy de Gourmont, La Physique de l'Amour: Essai sur l'Instinct Sexuel (1903), ch. 18: La question des aberrations http://books.google.com/books?id=32ZJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA233&dq=%22De+toutes+les+aberrations+sexuelles%22&lr=&ei=6TXvR9yOM4zGyATqjfX4Bw.
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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Variant: Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most curious is chastity.
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