What could she knew of the reality of sexual indulgence, however pleasurable it might be?

Sexual abstinence is often replaced with sexual indulgence (usually in a highly ritualized way).

Before marriage, it seems to have been the women who made the choice about sexual indulgence; after marriage it may have been otherwise.

For ten years now, Silas had faithfully denied himself all sexual indulgence, even self-administered.

In this aspect the world's values find expression in the driving lust for power, wealth, and sexual indulgence.

Thus, Aspasia is presented as the personification of the life of sexual indulgence.

Shocking and embarrassing Clare had been a kind of sexual indulgence.

For Ellis sexual indulgence didn't pose the threat to health or character that preoccupied many earlier writers.

'The best mothers, wives and managers of households', he wrote, 'know little or nothing of sexual indulgence.

However, Sanger was opposed to excessive sexual indulgence.