| The pioneering researcher Sigmund Freud believed that humans are born polymorphously perverse, which means that any number of objects could be a source of pleasure. |
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| Luc is trying to keep the parasite from attacking him, but on the other, he could be read as being threatened by her vision of a sexualized, polymorphously perverse society. |
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| Like some unrepentant, polymorphously perverse Humbert Humbert, Lucien intoxicates with his language, accepting his predilection for the dead as what it is. |
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