under the most
favorable circumstances, perhaps exclusively in spring, and, most
especially, only when the woman is ready for it. Then, when in
the arms of the man she loves, the vagina, in sympathy with the
active movements of the womb, becomes distended at the touch of
the turgescent, but not fully erect, penis, "flashes open and
draws in the male organ." "All animals," he adds, "have sexual
intercourse by the male organ being _drawn_, not forced, into the
female. I have been borne out in this by friends who have seen
horses, camels, mules and other large animals in the coupling
season. What is more absurd, for instance, than to say that an
entire _penetrates_ the mare? His penis is a sensitive, beautiful
piece of mechanism, which brings its light head here and there
till it touches the right spot, when the mare, _if ready_, takes
it in. An entire's penis could not penetrate anything; it is a
curve, a beautiful curve which would easily bend. A bull's,
again, is turned down at the end and, more palpably still, would
fold on itself if pressed with force. The womb and vagina of a
beautiful and healthy woman constitute a living, vital, moving
organ, sensitive to a look, a word, a thought, a hand on the
waist."

A well-known American author thus writes in confirmation of the
foregoing view: "In nature the woman wooes. When impassioned her
vagina becomes erect and dilated, and so lubricated with abundant
mucus to the lips that entrance is easy. This dilatation and
erectile expansion of vagina withdraws the hymen so close to the
walls that penetration need not tear it or cause pain. The more
muscular, primitive and healthy the woman the tougher and less
sensitive the hymen, and the less likely to break or bleed. I
think one great function of the foreskin also is to moisten the
glans, so that it can be lubricated for entrance, and then to
retract, moist side out, to make entrance still easier. I think
that in nature the glans penetrates within the labia, is
withstood a moment, vibrating, and then all resistance is
withdrawn by a sudden 'flashing open' of the gates, permitting
easy entrance, and that the sudden giving up of resistance, and
substitution of welcome, with its instantaneous deep entrance,
causes an almost immediate male orgasm (the thrill being
irresistibly exci