lasciviousness

• “Gentiles -- heathen: which many of you were. when, &c. -- "walking as ye have done [Alford] in lasciviousness"; the”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “The time past our lives may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, 1 Pet. iv.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)

• “3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)

• “They often contain an element of what we would call lasciviousness, but to the Manóbo they merely represent ordinary natural acts.”

  The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir

• “There are instances of debauched and shameless old age which, deficient in vital resources, strives to supply their place by fictitious excitement; a kind of brutish lasciviousness, that is ever the more cruelly punished by nature, from the fact that the immediately-ensuing debility is in direct proportion to the forced stimulation which has preceded it.”

  Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.

• “The elegance which she wished to introduce was termed lasciviousness; yet I do not find that the absence of gallantry renders the wives more chaste, or the husbands more constant.”

  Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

• “We may also reply that "lasciviousness" relates to certain acts circumstantial to the venereal act, for instance kisses, touches, and so forth.”

  Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province

• “Words in the Bible, such as "lasciviousness" and so on, have started mere school children asking questions to which probably they only got distorted answers from other school children.”

  Men Women and God

• “The monk Ordericus Vitalis, in the eleventh century, notes what he calls the "lasciviousness" of the wives of the Norman conquerors of England who, when left alone at home, sent messages that if their husbands failed to return speedily they would take new ones.”

  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society

• “Other cases of diverse new emotions can be recalled, such as lasciviousness, dirty habits, perverted thoughts, and, on the other hand, extreme piety, chastity, and purity of the mind.”

  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

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