This lust creeps into those who in adolescence have slackened the reins of modesty, and have had no lack of prostitutes, especially if they have not been without the wealth needed to meet the expense. They implant and root this lust in themselves by disorderly and unrestrained immorality, having no shame in thinking about making love to the female sex, and by convincing themselves that adultery is not an evil and certainly not a sin. As they go on this lust grows in them, until they desire every woman in the world, wanting hordes of them and a new one every day.

Since this lust springs out of the ordinary sexual love everyone has implanted in him, and to the greatest extent from the love of one of the other sex, which is conjugial love, and launches itself into the outer regions of the heart as the delight of love, which is separate but yet derived from them, it is therefore so deeply rooted in the skin, that after their powers have faded, it remains in the sense of touch. These people think nothing of committing adultery. So they think of the whole female sex as they would of a common whore, of marriage as the regular frequenting of prostitutes, so mixing up shamelessness with modesty that the confusion drives them mad. These considerations make it obvious what the lust for variety means here, an utterly dissolute lust for immoral behaviour.