A present from June, the object of his perverse desire.

Not romance, but a perverse desire for the bizarre, the alien, the freakish?

She felt a perverse desire to kick the both of them.

Or perhaps a perverse desire to be where the action is.

"When it comes to music theory, I have a perverse desire to remain ignorant," he said.

Not out of irritation, or a perverse desire to harm.

A terrible, perverse desire to look up into the other woman's face had seized her.

She covered them not out of some perverse desire to degrade high art, but because these were subjects that interested contemporary artists.

Now that the younger man was turning to go, he felt a perverse desire to keep him there.

He described her as having an "obsessive, even perverse, desire for male attention."