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The term "lascivious" in literature is often deployed to evoke unbridled sexual desire or lewdness while carrying a moral charge that condemns such excess. In works ranging from classical satire to explicitly erotic narratives, authors use it to color characters’ behavior with a sense of debauchery or sensual overindulgence—for instance, its use in portraying witchy or promiscuous conduct in early texts ([1]) contrasts with its graphic depiction of explicit, bodily encounters in later erotic works ([2], [3]). At times the word also serves an abstract purpose, describing not merely physical acts but even ideas or moods that are corrupt or inappropriately indulgent, as seen in philosophical writings that warn against the dangers of unrestrained passion ([4]). Thus, whether in the refined, ironic tones of Shakespeare ([5]) or the unfiltered revelries of more modern texts, "lascivious" remains a potent descriptor of excess in both body and thought.
  1. Females as superstitious, as they were lascivious, might be seen offering in public to Priapus, as many garlands as they had had lovers.
    — from Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction by John Davenport
  2. At last, overcome by the lascivious movements, I sank on his bosom.
    — from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous
  3. My prick had regained its full vigour, and could not fail to slip in of itself into that most lascivious and gaping cunt when it reached the entrance.
    — from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous
  4. Plain words do not matter; it is lascivious ideas which must be avoided.
    — from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  5. Thou art a most pernicious usurer; Froward by nature, enemy to peace; Lascivious, wanton, more than well beseems A man of thy profession and degree;
    — from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

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