acted
to one lover only.

The instinct of procreation is much stronger in woman than in man, and
is combined with the desire to give herself passively, to play the
part of one who devotes herself, who is conquered, mastered and
subjugated. These negative aspirations form part of the normal sexual
appetite of woman.

A peculiarity of the sexual sentiments of woman is an ill-defined
pathological phenomenon with normal sensations, a phenomenon which in
man, on the contrary, forms a very marked contrast with the latter; I
refer to the _homosexual_ appetite, in which the object is an
individual of the same sex. Normally, the adult man produces on
another man an absolutely repulsive effect from the sexual point of
view; it is only pathological subjects, or those excited by sexual
privation who are affected with sensual desires for other men. But in
woman a certain sensual desire for caresses, connected more or less
with unconscious and ill-defined sexual sensations, is not limited to
the male sex but extends to other women, to children, and even to
animals, apart from pathologically inverted sexual appetites. Young
normal girls often like to sleep together in the same bed, to caress
and kiss each other, which is not the case with normal young men. In
the male sex such sensual caresses are nearly always accompanied and
provoked by sexual appetite, which is not the case in women. As we
have already seen, man may separate true love from the sexual appetite
to such an extent that two minds, each feeling in a different way, may
inhabit the same brain. A man may be a loving and devoted husband and
at the same time satisfy his animal appetites with prostitutes. In
woman, such sexual dualism is much more rare and always unnatural, the
normal woman being much less capable than man of separating love from
sexual appetite.

These facts explain the singular caprices of the sexual appetite and
orgasm in the normal woman, in whom these phenomena are not easily
produced without love.

The same woman who loves one man and not another is susceptible to
sexual appetite and voluptuous sensations when she cohabits with the
first, while she is often absolutely cold and insensible to the most
passionate embraces of the second. This fact explains the possibility
of prostitution as it exists among women. The worst prostitutes, who
have connection with innumerable paying clients without feeling the
least pleasure, generally have a "protector" w