Moralists and men nervous of their virility have always been eager to suggest that sexual feelings are weak or non-existent in women. Perhaps the most famous physician to argue in such a way was Sir William Acton who wrote a number of sexological books in the nineteenth century - and who has been roundly condemned by liberals ever since. He wrote, for instance, that "the majority of women (happily for them) are not very much troubled with sexual feeling of any kind ... The best mothers, wives, and managers of households, know little or nothing of sexual indulgence. Love of home, children, and domestic duties, are the only passions they feel. As a general rule, a modest woman seldom desires any sexual gratification for herself. She submits to her husband, but... would far rather be relieved from his attentions ..." Acton also declared, in stronger terms, that to impute sexual feeling to a woman is a "vile aspersion," though he conceded that women of the lower classes may have such emotions.