A story need not be factual to be true. The Emperor’s New Clothes is a true story, as are Romeo and Juliet, The Lord of the Rings, and The Remains of the Day. They’re true, because they create an encounter with reality. But our current human reality is not absolute reality; it is not God. This reality also includes created things in a state of journeying, and it includes disorder.

In the ideal case, the virtue of purity enables a man to be in the presence of women, to experience their unavoidable beauty, while behaving (and, especially, thinking) justly toward them – you know, like real people.