Conjugial Love (Rogers) n. 508

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508. (2) This lust involves a love for the opposite sex and at the same time a loathing for it. It involves a love for the opposite sex because the opposite sex provides the variety, and it involves a loathing for the sex because once men of this character have tasted any of them they cast them away and go lusting after others. This obscene lust burns for a new woman, but after its heat is spent grows cold to her; and the coldness is loathing. We can illustrate the fact that this lust involves a love for the opposite sex and at the same time a loathing for it in the following way. Imagine such men having a group of the women they have tasted to their left, and a group of women they have not tasted to their right. Would they not look upon the latter with love, and upon the first with loathing? And yet each group would be composed of the opposite sex.


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