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This is a long dissertation very common among Sanscrit authors, both when writing and
talking socially. They start certain propositions, and then argue for and against them. What it
is presumed the author means is that, though both men and women derive pleasure from the
act of coition, the way it is produced is brought about by different means, each individual
performing his own work in the matter, irrespective of the other, and each deriving
individually their own consciousness of pleasure from the act they perform. There is a
difference in the work that each does, and a difference in the consciousness of pleasure that
each has, but no difference in the pleasure they feel, for each feels that pleasure to a greater
or lesser degree.
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This paragraph should be particularly noted, for it specially applies to married men and their
wives. So many men utterly ignore the feelings of the women, and never pay the slightest
attention to the passion of the latter. To understand the subject thoroughly, it is absolutely
necessary to study it, and then a person will know that, as dough is prepared for baking, so
must a woman be prepared for sexual intercourse, if she is to derive satisfaction from it
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