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It is obvious what the results of this must be: [[homosexuality]], for instance, and occasional rape cases. But deeper than these there is the degradation worked in a man who knows that he is not even considered fit for marriage. The sexual impulse, not to put it any higher, is a fundamental impulse, and starvation of it can be almost as demoralizing as physical hunger. The evil of poverty is not so much that it makes a man suffer as that it rots him physically and spiritually. And there can be no doubt that sexual starvation contributes to this rotting process. Cut off from the whole race of women, a tramp feels himself degraded to the rank of a cripple or a lunatic. No humiliation could do more damage to a man’s self-respect.|George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, 1933<ref>"Down and Out in Paris and London",1933, George Orwell, Chapter XXXVI.</ref>}} | It is obvious what the results of this must be: [[homosexuality]], for instance, and occasional rape cases. But deeper than these there is the degradation worked in a man who knows that he is not even considered fit for marriage. The sexual impulse, not to put it any higher, is a fundamental impulse, and starvation of it can be almost as demoralizing as physical hunger. The evil of poverty is not so much that it makes a man suffer as that it rots him physically and spiritually. And there can be no doubt that sexual starvation contributes to this rotting process. Cut off from the whole race of women, a tramp feels himself degraded to the rank of a cripple or a lunatic. No humiliation could do more damage to a man’s self-respect.|George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, 1933<ref>"Down and Out in Paris and London",1933, George Orwell, Chapter XXXVI.</ref>}} | ||
== Women | == Women on hypergamy == | ||
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