Thy lady is a scurvy lady, and a shitten lady, / And, though I never heard of her, a deboshed lady.

As Stoller says, perversion is a sturdy word, throbbing with assumptions, while paraphilia is a wet noodle.

“Rahther, I say. But you understand, of course, that I’m giving him a bit of spoof.” / “A bit of what?” / “Spoof—spoof. Is it possible that you have been here since Saturday without learning what ‘spoof’ means? It means to chaff, to joke. In the States the slang equivalent would be ‘to string’ someone.” / “How did you learn it?” / “A cabby told me about it. I started to have some fun with him, and he told me to ‘give over on the spoof.’[…]”

Having re- embraced Herodism, post-war Japan learned from the U.S. while under its control and was reborn as an economic power.