servants, prostitutes, women whom I have known only as friends,
others with whom I have had sexual relations--and I cannot
recollect one instance when a woman said she had fallen in love
with a man for his looks. The nearest approach to any sign of
this was in the instance of one, who noticed a handsome man
sitting near us in a hotel, and said to me: 'I should like him to
kiss me.'

"I have also noticed that women do not like looking at my body,
when naked, as I like looking at theirs. My wife has, on a few
occasions, put her hand over my body, and expressed pleasure at
the feeling of my skin. (I have very fair, soft skin.) But I have
never seen women exhibit the excitement that is caused in me by
the sight of their bodies, which I love to look at, to stroke, to
kiss all over."

It is interesting to point out, in this connection, that the
admiration of strength is not confined to the human female. It is
by the spectacle of his force that the male among many of the
lower animals sexually affects the female. Darwin duly allows for
this fact, while some evolutionists, and notably Wallace,
consider that it covers the whole field of sexual selection. When
choice exists, Wallace states, "all the facts appear to be
consistent with the choice depending on a variety of male
characteristics, with some of which color is often correlated.
Thus, it is the opinion of some of the best observers that vigor
and liveliness are most attractive, and these are, no doubt,
usually associated with some intensity of color, ... There is
reason to believe that it is his [the male bird's] persistency
and energy rather than his beauty which wins the day." (A.R.
Wallace, _Tropical Nature_, 1898, p. 199.) In his later book,
_Darwinism_ (p. 295), Wallace reaffirms his position that sexual
selection means that in the rivalry of males for the female the
most vigorous secures the advantage; "ornament," he adds, "is the
natural product and direct outcome of superabundant health and
vigor." As regards woman's love of strength, see Westermarck,
_History of Marriage_, p. 255.

Women admire a man's strength rather than his beauty. This statement is
commonly made, and with truth, but, so far as I am aware, its meaning is
never analyzed. When we look into it, I think, we shall find that it leads
us into a special division o