“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.”

“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.”

“Like some unrepentant, polymorphously perverse Humbert Humbert, Lucien intoxicates with his language, accepting his predilection for the dead as what it is.”