When it comes to sexuality we are all hypocrites -Freud

The cruelty of the church, the State and the acquiescence of the Irish citizenship must make all of us hang our heads in shame.

To take a child from its mother is an unspeakable crime. To lock up women because they become mothers is another unspeakable crime.

And while all of that was happening the majority of Irish people offered a silly reverence to priests and sisters, who were asked to be celibate.

Is there any explanation for it? Does anyone know what advantage or what gifts celibacy brings to a human being?

But the line from Sigmund Freud is worth quoting; "In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites."

It's surely a brilliant line.

Robert Seethaler's The Tobacconist throws some light on the mayhem/the wonder/the danger/the loneliness/the failure of human sexuality.

Seethaler is an Austrian writer. His book, The Tobacconist, published in German in 2012 proved a best seller and was made into a film.

A young man moves from his small village to Vienna in the 1930s. Hitler is in the background. The young man has his first sexual experience during his early days in the Austrian capital. He's confused, accidentally meets Freud and so goes the conversation.