Sentence:  Although it would have been allowed, I did not keep a journal over those six months. From the start I saw that what I wanted to say, although ‘hereafter, in a better world than this' it might find other readers and do its good, would have brought nothing but scorn and <WSD>salacity</WSD> at the time. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The state or quality of being salacious; lewdness, obscenity, bawdiness.