Many people assume that morality — our sense of what is “right” and just in this world versus what is wrong — is something we formulate through a process of time, experience and thinking. We equate morality with higher reasoning and not a base instinct like hunger or the need...

Laura Frost is a professor of English at Yale University and the author of "Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism." She writes in the Los Angeles Times: Mosley’s marathon session with Mistress Switch is as British as the proverbial stiff upper lip. Not only has S&...