The Second Sex

erotic-as-power

• He undressed, asking her to look at him nude and to admire his penis… he threw her on the bed and brutally deflowered her. Naturally, she remained frigid forever.

  TSS-005

• Her husband exclaimed: 'You have deceived me! You are not a virgin!' Her pains in the back represent the fixation of this painful episode.

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embodiment

• My beautiful marble body softened and broken and stretched and deformed… I felt myself some poor animal in a mighty trap. Where was my lovely, youthful naiad form?

  TSS-012

• I am naked and struck by the beauty of my body… Without getting married it is almost impossible. I have to take a husband, if only to have my statue made.

  TSS-009

shame

• Sin! A vague idea, sin! If a man calls you, don't go… if it happened, I would have no pity, I would leave you in the gutter.

  TSS-013

• During dancing I was somewhat exhibitionistic; my sensuality seemed to overcome my feeling of shame… I was burning and would have taken anyone who would relieve me.

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