"You know what the whole problem is?" Ascyltos started lecturing Encolpius, "It isn't about the hermaphrodite. A stupid hermaphrodite will die anyway, if you take it out of its safe enclosure and expose it to sun and dry air. No, it's not that. You are ashamed to name the act by its name, aren't you? You are ashamed about 'it', right? You even can't pronounce the name of it and you know why? Well, that's what you know, not me. But you should do it for a change. You should just look at me and say, at point blank: 'Ascylte, there was a time that I could **** girls, but then I got laid by a nymphomaniac and I got so nauseous because of that, that I suddenly couldn't do it anymore.' That's what you should dare to say aloud for a change. That would suit you. And you would see the truth as well. It wasn't because of the hermaphrodite, but because of the nymphomaniac. If it had been because of the hermaphrodite, I wouldn't have been able to **** anymore, because I was there with you and for sure, I was your accomplice in that matter."

From the novel "The Boys of Satyricon"