Lacking it, no pleasure.

Would I shun it if I could?

Faith, I almost doubt it.

No, I’d rather bear its sting,

Than live my life without it.

The Art of Loving

By Ellen Key

(Contemporary Norwegian writer. From “Love and Marriage.”[10])

Every developed modern woman wishes to be loved not enmale, but en artiste. Only a man whom she feels to possess an artist’s joy in her, and who shows this joy in discreet and delicate contact with her soul as with her body, can retain the love of the modern woman.

[10] J. G. Stokes Co., Pub.