PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE 



has to have them lent to it. y The superiority of feminine 

 beauty is real, it has a sole" cause, the unity of line. 

 What makes woman the more beautiful is the invisibility 

 of her genital organs. The male organ, which is some- 

 times an advantage, is always a load, and always a 

 blemish; it is made for the race, not for the individual. 

 In the male human, and precisely because of its erect 

 attitude, the sex is the sensitive point par excellence, 

 and the visible point, it is the point of attack in hand 

 to hand struggle, point of aim for the jet, obstacle for 

 the eye, be it as a roughness of surface, be it as a break 

 in the middle of the line. The harmony of the female 

 body is then geometrically, much more perfect, espe- 

 cially if one consider the male and the female at the 

 very hour of desire, at the moment, that is, when they 

 present the most intense and most natural expression 

 of life. In the woman, all movements are interior, or 

 visible only in the undulation of her curves, conserving 

 thus her full aesthetic value, while the man, seeming 

 at once to recede toward the primitive states of animality, 

 appears reduced, putting off all beauty, to the bare 

 and simple condition of genital organ. Man, it is true, 

 has his aesthetic compensation during pregnancy and 

 its deformations. 



One must admit also that the human form has grave 

 defects of proportion, and that they are more accentuated 

 in the female than in the male. In general the trunk 

 is too long, and the legs, consequently, too short. One 

 says that there are two aesthetic types in Aryan races: 

 one with long limbs and one with short limbs. Both 

 types are indeed, easy enough to distinguish, but they 

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