§ 142
This doctrine of the supremity of masculine erotic control will be objected to, and by the best of women. They will say that they get their joy in perfect marriage from the knowledge that their husbands are made happy. They will also say that it is only fair play if there is a give and take on both sides, and that the denial of woman’s control relegates them to an inferior position.
They misunderstand, however, the biological foundations of the marital state if they consider woman’s position of receiver and not giver as in any way implying inferiority. They confuse erotic control, which is demonstrably a one-way control, with egoistic-social control, which is quite as normally exercised by women as by men, by women over men, as by men over women.
They fail to see also that the secure establishment of the one-way masculine erotic control will so satisfy men that no dispute can arise as to the rights of women in the egoistic-social sphere. They fail to see also that the solid foundation of truly erotic control over them by their husbands will release for egoistic-social activities an enormous fund of energy which is now irrationally locked up in the erotic sphere. In other words if they are fortunate enough to be married to a man who is in perfect control erotically they will not need to worry about his approval of whatever they may find interesting to do in egoistic-social spheres of action.