But on this last head there is a difference of opinion about the female, which should be stated. The difference in the ways of working, by which men are the actors, and women are the persons acted upon, is owing to the nature of the male and the female, otherwise the actor would be sometimes the person acted upon, and vice versa. But this objection is groundless, for, the person acting and the person acted upon being of different kinds, there is a reason for the difference in their ways of working; but there is no reason for any difference in the pleasure they feel, because they both naturally derive pleasure from the act they perform. Again, in throwing one wood apple against another, and also in a fight or struggle of wrestlers. In other words, the horse and mare, the bull and deer, form the high union, while the horse and deer form the highest union. In the beginning of coition the passion of the woman is middling, and she cannot bear the vigorous thrusts of
