CLA219H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Female Hysteria, Sexual Intercourse, Miscarriage
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Sexual desire is self-willed and disobedient like an animal, and tries to control everything be- cause of its maddening desires. G: aristotle"s explanation of the process of conception is deduced from external secretions, male semen has primary generative importance, female semen (i. e. menstrual fluid, which also sustains the developing embryo) purely nu- tritive value. Females as one who generates in themselves one differed from the other: but they also differ bodily. Male and female secretion: menstrual fluid is residue and is analogous to semen of males as evidences by its behavior", the same time men begin to generate semen, women discharge menstrual fluid, i. e. Similarly in old age both semen cease generating/discharging: blood vessels are not so prominent in females compared to males. Females are made smoother than males, because residue which goes to produce characteristics in males is in females discharged together with the menstrual fluid. Texts 338-352 be no menstrual fluid she cums amount: i. e.