Introduction -- Excluded words. Language: English -- Language: our neighbors -- Excluded images. Introductory -- Pornography, corruption and depravity -- Erotica: the sources -- Outside Christendom -- In despite of Christendom -- Transcending Christendom -- Exempt from art? -- Excluded actions. Introductory -- Incest -- Orgies -- Excluded people. Prostitution -- Historical. Introductory -- Augustine between Pelagius and Mani -- Orthodox Christianity -- Courtly love and adultery -- Scandal, accident, absence and suicide -- Love's loss was empire's gain -- The Cheshire scowl -- Libertinism: the religious phase -- Libertinism: the irreligious phase -- Sadism -- Stakhanovism -- Projection. The golden age -- Animals, foreigners and women -- Inclusion. The religious view -- Carpe diem -- Conclusion.