Christ taught the denial of the flesh both in precept and example.

Newton never knew a woman." "I know nothing about Newton," she retorted, "but Christ had a feeling heart for the Magdalen and the adulteress.

Beside, Christ was a God, and I am speaking of ordinary mortals, and it is only through woman, through your love of woman, that you become heroes and demigods." "No," Wilhelm answered bluntly, "it is woman who drags man down to the level of the beasts.

We have a German fairy tale in which a bear becomes human as soon as he embraces a woman.

In real life it is just the opposite.