Gilles appears to have despised the sex ever since leaving the court.

After experience of the ribalds of the camps and frequentation, with Xaintrailles and La Hire, of the prostitutes of Charles VII, it seems that a dislike for the feminine form came over him.

Like others whose ideal of concupiscence is deteriorated and deviated, he certainly comes to be disgusted by the delicacy of the grain of the skin of women and by that odour of femininity which all sodomists abhor.
"He depraves the choir boys who are under his authority.

He chose them in the first place, these little psaltry ministrants, for their beauty, and 'beautiful as angels' they are.

They are the only ones he loves, the only ones he spares in his murderous transports.
"But soon infantile pollution seems to him an insipid delicacy.