“ With young society men, for example, I don’t desire any physical possession, but I can’t rest until I’ve touched them, I don’t mean bodily, but touched some chord in them. Once, instead of leaving my letters unanswered, a young man never ceases writing to me, is mine to dispose of morally, I am appeased, or I would be at least if I wasn’t soon gripped by concern about another one. ”
 Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah (1921). copy citation