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Outside of politics, on no subject about which it is possible to write is there likely to be so much criticism on the one side, and so much support on the other, as on the subject of sex. Sometimes a daring writer ventures to suggest that it is possible to advance by degrees in the inner life, and that it is not essential for the aspirants who are already married or for those who hope to get married eventually, to forswear the bliss and risk of wedded union. He is immediately corrected by rigidly chaste ladies and gentlemen in the West as well as not a few brown-robed monks in the East, who will sternly inform him that he has perverted the spiritual teaching and led these aspirants astray!

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 7 : Sex > # 150