On the contrary, I think I could prove that passion, the desire of the man for the woman and the woman for the man, has been enormously strengthened in modern times.

Christianity has created, or at least cultivated, modesty, and modesty has sharpened desire.

Christianity has helped to lift woman to an equality with man, and this modern intellectual development has again intensified passion out of all knowledge.

The woman who is not a slave but an equal, who gives herself according to her own feeling, is infinitely more desirable to a man than any submissive serf who is always waiting on his will.

And this movement intensifying passion is every day gaining force.
"We have a far higher love in us than the Greeks, infinitely higher and more intense than the Romans knew; our sensuality is like a river banked in with stone parapets, the current flows higher and more vehemently in the narrower bed." "You may talk as you please, Frank, but you will never get me to believe that what I know is good to me, is evil.