"It might be...that Byron was one of those men who seemed to attach all their need for warmth and comfort and physical reassurance to sex...It's as though all the delight we all take in contact, in hugs and touches and being held, the delight children and parents take in each other that way, all goes into sex. I think that when it does, the person...might be a pretty generous and unhurtful lover, just a constant and continuous one. And maybe such a person might sometimes pick some oddly assorted partners, or allow himself...to be picked by some very odd or very wrong ones, or by any, or almost all."

--John Crowley, Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land
...(page 284)