"The mother contacted highly solvent but depraved men so they could have sex with the minors when they turned 12," he added.
Essentially an image of public rape, it sums up Gerome's Orient: a benighted realm of depraved men and passive, available women.
You might reasonably make a case that it does nothing socially constructive with the revulsion it generates – or even that it puts into the world images that depraved men might actually enjoy.
It was quite the Sunday morning gossip, and we prayed for those depraved men.
He never talks about real suffering of others in the larger world that sometimes do result from mean and depraved men: poverty, injustice, war, repression, racism, etc.
"I may very well owe my life to Mark and the others who summoned the enormous courage of love necessary to deny those depraved, hateful men their terrible triumph," he said.
When its nostrils are full and fat, it will cut a hole in its trousers and hoik you around in the vice-like grip of its anus, reducing you to a visual prop in a depraved one-man-band skit performed solely for the amusement of other abstract concepts in the shadow realm where oblivion lives, concepts like shame and Tatler and lacrosse.
There is nothing in the world more helpless, more irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon".
There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge".
In the preface to La Comédie Humaine he wrote: "Christianity, above all, Catholicism, being...a complete system for the repression of the depraved tendencies of man, is the most powerful element of social order".
