Today's quote, from Martin Luther:

"Nature never lets up.  We are all driven to the secret sin.  To say it crudely but honestly, if it doesn't go into a woman, it goes into your shirt."

There are a couple of things to  note about this honest crudity of Martin Luther:  (1) The invention of convenient, absorbent ankle socks was, in the early 16th century, still several hundred years in the future.  (2) The oftenest committed sin in pre-Freudian Christian Europe and America--the one that men and boys were always being warned by reputable authority not to commit, and which weighed heaviest on their consciences because they were, in fact, always committing it--was not homosexuality (which, after all, no one was even sure existed), but masturbation, or, as Christians called it, "Onanism," or "the sin of Onan," or, as in this case, more familiarly, just "the secret sin."  The ladies may have wondered, but the guys all knew what he was talking about.

Did Freud really liberate us (guys) from a morbid preoccupation with, and fear of, masturbation? Well, then I may have to rescind part of my harshest judgement of Father Sigmund, which had been that he  and his silly-ass, crackpot "depth psychology" had done no good of any kind whatsoever.