Those national repugnancies do not touch me, nor do I behold with prejudice the French, Italian, Spaniard, or Dutch.

These repugnancies, although they enkindle, still are not the causes, but only the beginnings of this lust: its cause is, that after conjugial love and also adulterous love have grown insipid by practice, they are willing, in order that those loves may be repaired, to be set on fire by absolute repugnances.