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... Anglo-Saxon lands, and is even more well marked among the better educated in the merely literary sense, than among the worse educated people. The aesthetic is confused with the moral, and what arouses disgust is thus regarded as immoral. In France the novels of Zola, the most pedestrianally moralistic of writers, were for a long time supposed to be immoral because they were often disgusting. The same feeling is still more widespread in England. If a prostitute is brought on the stage, and she is pretty, well-dressed, ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis