In the course of debunking one myth, Hall writes, "moral earnestness and libertine behaviour were both to be found in Victoria's subjects but very seldom in the same individual."

That may be true, but they may often be found today in the same individual, when that individual is an American fundamentalist preacher. The number of those whose denunciations against homosexuality turn out to be self-beatings for their own, apparently irresistible, homosexual inclinations is truly remarkable.