There is no such thing as history. The facts, even were they available, are too numerous to grasp. A selection must be made; and this can only be one-sided, because the selector is enclosed in the same network of time and space as his subject.
As long as sexual relations are complicated by religious, social and financial
considerations, so long will they cause all kinds of cowardly, dishonourable and disgusting
behaviour - aleister crowley (Confessions)