Strindberg often was a bit frivolous in his language when writing to Larsson. When the book Married was published Strindberg wrote to C. Larsson:
"Against my usual habits I have read my book in print. I find it "seminal", it is like an honest and good copulation compared with Ibsen´s hysterical jerking off".
The authorities did not like this copulative style of prose and the book was prosecuted for violating paragraph three in the press-law, blasphemy against God or mockery of God´s word and the sacraments. But Strindberg won the trial.

Strindberg´s newspaper layout

Strindberg liked to spend the summer on this island in the Stockholm Archipelago.
"My flowerbasket in the sea" he called it. Strindberg had a lifelong passion for this blissed island