Vita Sexualis

desire. When art is viewed in this manner, in much the same way that the menstrual flow is at times disoriented and emerges through the nose, sexual craving becomes embodied in drawings, engravings, music, novels, and plays.

Mr. Kanai could not help suspecting that either people in general had become erotomaniacs or he himself was abnormally frigid.

Criticism kept acknowledging that human life involved sex. And when it seemed psychiatrists were saying that every aspect of a man's life is tinged with sexual desire, Mr. Kanai became even more suspicious.

Each time he read a naturalistic novel, he discovered that the author never failed to use every occasion in daily life to represent his hero in reference to sexual desire and that the critics themselves acknowledged these novels accurately depicted life.

We should erect a spiritual naturalism. Realize it and it will be another glory, another perfection, another power."

Naturalism, however, should try to put more emphasis upon the spiritual values of human beings. Miracles should not be explained in terms of sensualism. Man has two parts, body and soul, which are delicately fused into one, are rather huddled together. If possible, the novel should treat Man from these two aspects.

Saigusa was proud of his expertise on low life, so he suggested taking us to some of the interesting places in Yoshiwara.

I don't believe anyone ever left the threshold of his own house with the expectation of visiting such a place.

Adachi was certainly happy, that even though he was undergoing pain, it was probably a sweet pain, not that bitter pain I felt lying dormant in me.

And among these, those who went out in white socks late Saturday afternoon were spoken about by us as if they were no longer human.