Confessed criminality, allegations of lechery and charges of cover-up formed the backdrop to the Liberal Democrat campaign in Eastleigh, and so to emerge ahead was quite something.
The principal culprit was protected by countless blind eyes, and by an on-screen culture which tittered indulgently at lechery, as if it were only natural for red-blooded males.
Comedians with larger, less well-informed audiences, such as Jay Leno, have to keep their political quips short and focused on figures with flaws everyone knows like Bill Clinton's lechery or George Bush's grammatical problems.
Lolita (1955), with its antihero, Humbert Humbert, who is possessed by an overpowering desire for very young girls, is yet another of Nabokov's subtle allegories: love examined in the light of its seeming opposite, lechery.
Perhaps the play should be thought of as a satire; the choric observations of Thersites and Pandarus serve throughout as a mordant commentary on the interconnectedness of war and lechery.
Nevertheless, equal opportunity lechery comes pretty low on the list of priorities.
In the brief moments that a female friend and I were shoulder to muscular shoulder with "The Stath", we found ourselves reduced to a mixture of coy blushes and out-and-out lechery.
As any Oxford student can tell you, lechery is not extinct.
I was aroused as only a 14-year-old virgin could be, by the lechery on the mud-grimed face of Diane Cilento, playing on-for-it Molly Seagrim.
They knew exactly the linguistic thorn-thicket I had just tumbled into, here in an age where the line between an innocent compliment and creepy lechery are hopelessly blurred.
Michael McCarthy Pop videos with a punchline Comedians and rock stars have traditionally had lechery and alcoholism in common, although comedians' self-deprecation has never sat well with the usual narcissism of those with a record in the charts.
