And so as to leave no doubts about my views, which in this respect are as honourable as they are strict, I want to share one more principle from my moral code against vice: with the word ‘vice’ I am combating every kind of anti-nature* or, if you like pretty words, idealism. The principle runs thus: ‘preaching chastity is a public incitement to perversity. All despising of the sexual life, all besmirching of it by calling it “;impure” is the crime of crimes against life—it is the true sin against the holy spirit of life.’
