The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfies....
Woman’s infinite variety, supposed in Shakespeare’s day to have been embodied in the arch-dispenser of delights, Cleopatra, was a rare phenomenon; but the modern view is that the variety is present in every woman, just as the fourscore keys are in every piano. In this sense, then, woman’s infinite variety is dependent on man’s control of her emotional reactions, no woman being full woman unless and until she has been completely manned.
§ 88
No human male, however, can completely man more than one woman, any more than one gonad can unite with more than one other germ cell. Complete fusion of two cells requires the entirety of one cell uniting with the entirety of another. This is the type of physical and psychical immortality. The union of two single cells contains the potentiality of development of all the qualities inherent in both, but in new combinations.
In the psychosomatic union of two individuals there is the same possibility of infinite variety in the physical and mental reactions, only if the union between them is, like the fusion of the two single cells, a complete total and exclusive union each with the other.
The fact that of the thousands of egg cells produced by one woman no two can fuse with each other, and that of the billions of spermatozoa produced by one man no two can fuse together, but that any one male germ cell can completely fuse with any one female germ cell is the prototype of a perfect full marriage, and is the suggestion that probably no couples need be unhappy; for happiness is a matter of fusion, and fusion can be accomplished by the removal of ignorance due to tradition.
§ 89
The right of the wife to experience the erotic acme at every love episode is only beginning to be admitted. Up to the present time the husband has generally gone on the principle of taking his wife’s body for the fine physical catharsis he fancies it produces in himself.