On the other hand, woman’s sexual nature, because of her biological function of motherhood (nature, of course, makes no distinction between actual and potential) is more diversified in its manifestations. It is less dominated by a powerful urge that seeks specific expression, less centered upon the immediate goal of concrete sexual experience, and is instinctively more concerned with the mate as a companion and protector, with children as “flesh of her flesh and blood of her blood,” and with the home as a haven of safety. This not a question of choice or will, but is due to the character of woman’s physiological being, with its highly organized nervous system. The peculiar development of he…
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