The Primal Urge. Brian Aldiss

a smattering of sages mislabelled voluptuaries, had ever staggered on his mighty discovery. Physical love was good!

      Jimmy recalled St Augustine’s nauseating comments on women; he recalled the diatribes of Puritans and Victorians; he recalled the dirty jokes he had heard and told; and he seethed with anger. It was all a pack of contemptible rubbish, foul, unhealthy lies and illusion! There was no beauty like the indulgence of the flesh, no cleanliness like a woman’s intimate cleanliness.