Vita Sexualis

If I offered him some meaningless words of consolation, he would not have hesitated to show his anger

Of course this wasn't a sexual problem. It couldn't be called a love problem either.

Having just returned from abroad, the professor was very particular about his diet, but with the exception of having plenty of meat at mealtimes, he was not especially extravagant. Only in drinking did he let himself go. It was after he returned from his office and had completed his translating at ten or eleven at night that he drank. His wife seemed to me to be heroic. Now that I think about it, it's rare among high public officials these days to see a family governed by such domestic bliss. It was wonderful that my father had placed me in a fine home

I wondered if he was using our provincial speech under the pretense of showing his loyalty to his superiors

, did not have the function of circulating the blood but of stimulating the spirit

function of breathing is superior to that of eating and drinking

I was much younger, it had been quite natural for me to think that this part of the body was a leg when it actually wasn't.

But love is not the same as sexual desire even though love may be closely related to it.

Mr. Kanai felt he wanted to write something, but he didn't want to imitate his predecessors

people in general had become erotomaniacs or he himself was abnormally frigid