PART ONE

Children and criminals are predisposed
to imitation, obscenity, alcoholism, laziness and vanity. Lombroso, L'uomo delinquente (1887)

I used myself as I would have let
no man use another; but needed over
me one yet harder and more ruthless,
who would have worn me to the last
fiber of my strength. . . . To eat dirt
until its taste is normal to me.
T.E. Lawrence, from the draft copy of
Seven Pillars of Wisdom

I am strongly inclined to suspect that
sexual monstrosities come about through the
remarkable effect which confinement or cultivation
has on the functions of the reproductive system.
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species (1859)
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