The thing I forgot to tell you all about Bryon, the second reason why he was a scandalous figure in England in 1818 (apart from his support of the Luddites): he and his half-sister Augusta Leigh were publicly carrying on an incestuous liaison!
A ref for the mention I made in relation to disgust, and whether we find something disgusting or aesthetically attractive: 'The Torture Garden', by Octave Mirbeau, a French novel published in 1899. Amazing book set in a garden in which torture is practiced as an art form. The narrator is repulsed as he's led around by a sensuous and depraved, but ultimately perversely-enlightened English woman named Clara. It's just been republished in English by Bookkake, with an introduction by - oh! (fancy that!) me:
http://bookkake.com/books/
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