We ever strive for what is forbid, and ever covet what is denied.

-thus Ovid
About which, the Laudator Temporis Acti blogger says

This line is increasingly meaningful to me, in matters intellectual, not sexual

I more and more believe that perversion is an identifiable human drive that applies in matters more than just sexual, and that like most human drives, it can be used for good. It was the thrill of perversion against the Spirit of the Age that made me exhilirated the first time I burnt a book or walked out of a movie.