In his autobiography, the linguist R.M.W. Dixon (who could concentrate at least well enough to produce great scholarship into old age) suggested that the break

In his autobiography, the linguist R.M.W. Dixon (who could concentrate at least well enough to produce great scholarship into old age) suggested that the break was puberty. He wished he could go back to that halcyon time of boyhood before a redblooded man would constantly find his thoughts turning to sex. No later advance in years was as clearly harmful as that.