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There are also nine kinds of union according to the force of passion or carnal desire, as follows:
MEN WOMEN MEN WOMEN
Small Small Small Middling
Middling Middling Small Intense
Intense Intense Middling Small
Middling Intense
Intense Small
Intense Middling
A man is called a man of small passion whose desire at the time of sexual union is not great, whose
semen is scanty, and who cannot bear the warm embraces of the female.
Those who differ from this temperament are called men of middling passion, while those of intense
passion are full of desire.
In the same way, women are supposed to have the three degrees of feeling as specified above.
Lastly, according to time there are three kinds of men and women, the short-timed, the moderatetimed,
and the long-timed; and of these, as in the previous statements, there are nine kinds of union.
But on this last head there is a difference of opinion about the female, which should be stated.
Auddalika says, `Females do not emit as males do. The males simply remove their desire, while the
females, from their consciousness of desire, feel a certain kind of pleasure, which gives them
satisfaction, but it is impossible for them to tell you what kind of pleasure they feel. The fact from
which this becomes evident is, that males, when engaged in coition, cease of themselves after
emission, and are satisfied, but it is not so with females.'
This opinion is however objected to on the grounds that, if a male be a long-timed, the female loves
him the more, but if he be short-timed, she is dissatisfied with him. And this circumstance, some
say, would prove that the female emits also.
But this opinion does not hold good, for if it takes a long time to allay a woman's desire, and during
this time she is enjoying great pleasure, it is quite natural then that she should wish for its
continuation. And on this subject there is a verse as follows:
`By union with men the lust, desire, or passion of women is satisfied, and the pleasure derived from
the consciousness of it is called their satisfaction.'
The followers of Babhravya, however, say that the semen of women continues to fall from the
beginning of the sexual union to its end, and it is right that it should be so, for if they had no semen
there would be no embryo.
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