Undistinguished for much of his life, except among the borrit community, where he was known throughout the empire as one with desires of almost unheard-of perversity (and this in a society in which weaselry was seen as fit for inclusion in children's novelettes!), Goodbishop Yurm came to intellectual and cultural prominence during the sprawling Quarrel about Borrits, when his actually rather subtle understanding of the role of the borrit in Uzdan culture was given expression for the first time.  Asking "Do we blame the borrit for opening his orifices to every visitor, or for taking payment to commit our crimes, that our souls might remain blameless?", Yurm recognized that the rigidity of the social codes in Uzdumalia could only ever be maintained in the general case if there were a way for the desires that, officially, did not exist to find expression.  The institution of borritry provided such an outlet in the form of a class explicitly intended in the society to be the object of abuse and sexual exploitation, and the fact that the borrit was exceptional precisely in this way allowed the "normal" members of society to talk freely about their otherwise unmentionable lusts---so long as the context was, of course, actions performed on borrits---and such desires could even be encouraged as a way of confirming and even honoring the borrit, as we see in Yurm's frequent perorations on the theme of what a shame it would be if borritry as an institution were abolished.  Yurm's peculiar genius lay in the fact that while he was clearly aware of the precise rôle borrits played in Uzdan culture (otherwise he would never have made the particular arguments he did), and probably of the fact that, if it were common knowledge, the institution could not persist long, he yet was able to articulate a defense of the institution precisely in terms of its actual sociological function, without ever giving the game away, so to speak, and making clear what that function was.

Yurm himself, presumably, was untroubled by his knowledge of the functional rôle of borritry, so long as the institution persisted; his notebooks, in which he recorded his every fantasy and his borrit-assisted realization of those he could safely carry out, reveals that his fascination with filth in every sense was unparalleled until the Catachthonian Heresy, and possibly not even then.  Vaulted to fame by his writings on borrits, he came to the attention of Urgenbah-Fits-Under, who became his patron, advancing his career and supplying him with the legal protection necessary to realize his desires, in which realizations she was known to participate.

See also:

Borrits

Catachthonian Heresy

Dynamo Club

Quarrel about Borrits

Urgenbah-Fits-Under

Weaselry