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Wild, erratic persons have a half-crazed expression of eye, while calmness, benignancy, intelligence, purity, sweetness, love, lasciviousness, anger, and all the other mental affections, express themselves quite as distinctly by the eye as voice, or any other mode 5.— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
12:21): "(Who) have not done penance for the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness, that they have committed I answer that, Matter is twofold, viz.— Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
They often contain an element of what we would call lasciviousness, but to the Manуbo they merely represent ordinary natural acts.— The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir

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