This Disobedience of man’s organism to man is specially evident in sexuality as sexuality now is but would not have been but for the Fall (XIV, 16–19). What St. Augustine means here is, in itself, so clear and yet so open to misunderstanding if not given in full, that we must not pass it over. He means that the sexual organs are not under direct control from the will at all. You can clench your fist without being angry and you can be angry without clenching your fist; the modification of the hand preparatory to fighting is controlled directly by the will and only indirectly, when at all, by
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