One of the Christian’s biggest fears is appearing ‘too Christian’. God forbid, because that’s often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being ‘one of them’.

On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.

Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God...

He gave a wry smile. With all this vigilant vigils on virginity, you would think the country would have controlled its population by now.

Why not? If you’re not going to let me see you naked, we might as well be girlfriends.””You’re a twisted little man.””Come on, Stretch, share with the class.””No!” I laughed.”Prude.””Perv.””Schoolmarm.””Some other word that essentially means...

I’m actually totally the prude of my family.

Give me the Black Death over a Victorian prude any day. At least the dying screw like it’s their last day on earth.”Paradise Lot: GoneGodsWorld – Episode 1

-the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man…