I guess this is a good argument for reading about abominable characters like Alfred Kinsey:
I couldn't stop reading The Inner Circle, for it possesses, to adopt an old phrase, "the fascination of the abomination". . . and yet part of me wishes I'd never read it. It calls to mind Evelyn Waugh's remark about Randolph Churchill that after reading about his amours, one could never again commit adultery, "or at least not with quite the same abandon."From Washington Post's Michael Dirda, reviewing T. C. Boyle's "The Inner Circle"
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