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Where, then, is your diabolical crime, which you tried to attach to it through the argument from shame?Sexual desire itself is no longer being condemned—the desire felt by nature’s own constitution in both forbidden and permitted intercourse—if only its distortion, straying toward what is unlawful, is blamed.
Et ubi est crimen tuum diabolicum, quod illi argumento pudoris nitebaris affigere? Non enim iam libido reprehenditur, quae et in prohibito et in concesso usu, naturae ipsius conditione sentitur, si depravatio eius, ad id quod non licebat excurrens, sola culpatur.