'What's that stuff they put in ships to keep them from going all over the place?' 'What? Oh … ballast?'… — Kingsley Amis
'What's that stuff they put in ships to keep them from going all over the place?'
'What? Oh … ballast?'
'That's right. People's sex drives are like ballast, they keep them steady. It sounds wrong, but they do.'
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