And he hated to be troublesome to someone who did not want him. ‘I abhor the idea of a body void of affection being mine.’ This would be like making love to a corpse, as in the story of the ‘frantic Egyptian hot after the carcass of a dead woman he was embalming and shrouding’. A sexual relationship must be reciprocal. ‘In truth, in this delight the pleasure I give tickles my imagination more sweetly than that which I feel.’
