THE LUST FOR VARIETY

The lust for variety which is discussed here does not mean a lust for fornication, to which a chapter has already been devoted. Although this is usually promiscuous and roving, it still does not impart a lust for variety, except when it becomes excessive and the fornicator counts how many women he has had, and his desire makes him boast of it. It is this notion which is the starting-point of this lust. But what it is like as it develops cannot be clearly seen unless set forth in some order, as follows. (i) The lust for variety means an utterly dissolute lust for immoral behaviour. (ii) This lust is at once love and loathing for the other sex. (iii) This lust utterly annihilates a person's conjugial love. (iv) The fate of these people after death is pitiful, since they lack the inmost level of life.

There now follows an explanation of these points.