For example, Holden is shown as intolerant of everyone, disrespectful, and hateful. He hates the use of certain words. Besides religion, his intolerance is based on the fact that he has problems with everyone as he is disrespectful and does not admit any mistakes. Furthermore, he really enjoys teenage sex, as his words reveal: “Sex is something I really don't understand. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sexual rules and then immediately break them. Last year I decided that I would stop messing around with girls who, basically, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though; the same week I did it – the same night, in fact” (Salinger). His intolerant personality is unacceptable and the book teaches that this is not the case