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" We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a woman is just what he does not want. He wants a pleasure for which a woman happens to be the necessary piece of apparatus. How much he cares about the woman as such may be gauged by his attitude for her five minutes after fruition. "

C.S. Lewis , The Four Loves


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C.S. Lewis quote : We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he