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We cannot ask ourselves whether ‘woman’ is superior or inferior to ‘man’ any more than we can ask ourselves whether water is superior or inferior to fire. There can be no doubt that a woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land and performs his work perfectly is superior to a king who cannot do his own work.
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Julius Evola (Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex)
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(On the myth of Eros) Each time I recall this myth, I wonder: Are we never to be able to see the true face of love? And I understand what the Greeks meant by this: Love is an act of faith and its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understand it, the magic disappears.
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Paulo Coelho (The Spy)
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L. T. Woodward has also rightly brought to light a form of psychological sadism in those women of today who "make a great show of their bodies but apply a symbolic placard bearing the words 'Do not touch. "* Sexual tormentresses of this kind are found everywhere: in the girl who wears a minute bikini, the married woman with a provocatively low neckline, the young woman who walks along the street wiggling her hips in very tight pants or in a miniskirt that leaves more than half of her thighs exposed and who wants to be looked at but not touched — all of these types are capable of showing anger.
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Julius Evola (Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex)
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They both confessed that the past week had been an awakening of sorts—for Julia, an awakening to the mysteries of eros; for Gabriel, an awakening to the mysteries of the four loves intertwined.
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Sylvain Reynard (Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2))
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Weininger observed that nothing is more baffling for a man than a woman’s response when caught in a lie. When asked why she is lying, she is unable to understand the question, acts astonished, bursts out crying, or seeks to pacify him by smiling . She cannot understand the ethical and transcendental side of lying or the fact that a lie represents damage to being and, as was acknowledged in ancient Iran, constitutes a crime even worse than killing. It is nonsense to deduce this trait in women from sociological factors; some people say that a lie is the “natural weapon” of the woman and therefore used in her defense for hundreds of years. The truth, pure and simple, is that woman is prone to lie and to disguise her true self even when she has no need to do so; this is not a social trait acquired in the struggle for existence, but something linked to her deepest and most genuine nature. Just as the absolute woman does not truly feel that lying is wrong, so in her, contrary to man, lying is not wrong, nor is it an inner yielding or a breaking of her own existential law. It is a possible counterpart of her plastic and fluid nature. A type such as D’Aurevilly described is perfectly understandable: “She made a habit of lying to the point where it became truth; it was so simple and natural, without any effort or alleviation." Ii is foolish to judge woman with the values of the absolute man even in cases where, by doing violence to her own self, she makes a show of following those values and even sincerely believes that she is following them.
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Julius Evola (Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex)
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We’ve made it private, contained it in family, when its audacity is in its potential to cross tribal lines. We’ve fetishized it as romance, when its true measure is a quality of sustained, practical care. We’ve lived it as a feeling, when it is a way of being. It is the elemental experience we all desire and seek, most of our days, to give and receive. The sliver of love’s potential that the Greeks separated out as eros is where we load so much of our desire, center so much of our imagination about delight and despair, define so much of our sense of completion. There is the love the Greeks called filia—the love of friendship. There is the love they called agape—love as embodied compassion, expressions of kindness that might be given to a neighbor or a stranger. The Metta of the root Buddhist Pali tongue, “lovingkindness,” carries the nuance of benevolent, active interest in others known and unknown, and its cultivation begins with compassion towards oneself.
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Krista Tippett (Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living)
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If we are stretching to live wiser and not just smarter, we will aspire to learn what love means, how it arises and deepens, how it withers and revives, what it looks like as a private good but also a common good. I long to make this word echo differently in hearts and ears—not less complicated, but differently so. Love as muscular, resilient. Love as social—not just about how we are intimately, but how we are together, in public. I want to aspire to a carnal practical love—eros become civic, not sexual and yet passionate, full-bodied. Because it is the best of which we are capable, loving is also supremely exacting, not always but again and again. Love is something we only master in moments.
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Krista Tippett (Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living)
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Eros: Real love is an all-consuming, desperate yearning for the beloved, who is perceived as different, mysterious, and elusive. The depth of love is measured by the intensity of obsession with the loved one. There is little time or attention for other interests or pursuits, because so much energy is focused on recalling past encounters or imagining future ones. Often, great obstacles must be overcome, and thus there is an element of suffering in true love. Another indication of the depth of love is the willingness to endure pain and hardship for the sake of the relationship. Associated with real love are feelings of excitement, rapture, drama, anxiety, tension, mystery, and yearning. Agape: Real love is a partnership to which two caring people are deeply committed. These people share many basic values, interests, and goals, and tolerate good-naturedly their individual differences. The depth of love is measured by the mutual trust and respect they feel toward each other. Their relationship allows each to be more fully expressive, creative, and productive in the world. There is much joy in shared experiences both past and present, as well as those that are anticipated. Each views the other as his/ her dearest and most cherished friend. Another measure of the depth of love is the willingness to look honestly at oneself in order to promote the growth of the relationship and the deepening of intimacy. Associated with real love are feelings of serenity, security, devotion, understanding, companionship, mutual support, and comfort.
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Robin Norwood (Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change)
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L.T Woodward a raison de voir une forme de sadisme psychologique chez les femmes d'aujourd’hui qui "mettent leur corps bien en vue, mais en y ajoutant l'inscription symbolique "interdit de toucher". On trouve partout des adeptes de cette forme de tourment sexuel : la fille qui se prĂ©sente en bikini rĂ©duit au minimum, la dame au dĂ©colletĂ© provocant, la gamine qui ondule dans la rue les fesses moulĂ©es par un pantalon trĂšs collant ou avec une "minijupe" qui laisse voir plus de la moitiĂ© des cuisses, dĂ©sirant ĂȘtre regardĂ©e mais non touchĂ©e, et toutes prĂȘtes Ă  s'indigner.
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Julius Evola (Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex)
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The author of Eros and Psyche, Lucius Apuleius, an initiate of the ancient mystery schools touched on the knowledge of the soul to achieve union with the Divine, by the agency of a spiritual love. Lucius Apuleius lived in Carthage, and his name was still mentioned 200 years after his death in this North African city; until St. Augustine, the most influential writer of Catholicism came along. Through the centuries Christianity flourished, and the esoteric wisdom went into obscurity, along with the story of Eros and Psyche. The story deals with subjects the church frowns upon, having a direct contact with the immortal soul, and connecting with the esoteric divine, and not the divine of the Catholic church. Up until this present moment, it's not a coincidence the story of Eros and Psyche has been considered a child's fable for almost 2,000 years.
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Serena Jade is a Psycho-Spiritual Author And Globe-Traveling Yoga Teacher (Eros and Psyche: An Ancient Soul Mate/Twin Flame Story)
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De fait, la relation entre l’amour et la nuit n’est pas seulement un thĂšme bien connu de la poĂ©sie romantique. Elle a aussi un soubassement existentiel diversement attestĂ©. Universellement, c’est surtout la nuit qu’hommes et femmes s’unissent sexuellement. MĂȘme lorsqu’il s’agit d'une simple aventure, la formule typique et la promesse seront toujours une « nuit d'amour » — dans ce contexte une « matinĂ©e d’amour » ferait l'effet d une fausse note. [...] Et si souvent les femmes — certaines femmes — dĂ©sirent encore maintenant cette condition, c’est parce qu’agit en elles, plus que la pudeur, un lointain reflet instinctif du phĂ©nomĂšne servant de fondement aux dispositions ou usages rituels dont on a parlĂ© et leur confĂ©rant une signification qui n’a rien de saugrenu. Hathor, dĂ©esse Ă©gyptienne de l’amour, eut aussi le nom de «MaĂźtresse de la Nuit», et l’on peut peut-ĂȘtre saisir un lointain Ă©cho de tout cela dans ce vers de Baudelaire : «Tu charmes comme le soir — Nymphe tĂ©nĂ©breuse et chaude».
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Julius Evola (Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex)
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Les Tantras, dans cette optique, estiment que le lien du secret, qui s’imposait autrefois pour les doctrines et les pratiques de la « Voie de la Main Gauche » Ă  cause de leur caractĂšre pĂ©rilleux et de la possibilitĂ© d’abus, d’aberrations et de dĂ©formations, est pĂ©rimĂ©. Le principe fondamental de l’enseignement secret, commun tant aux Tantras hindouistes qu’aux Tantras bouddhiques (ceux-ci dĂ©finissant essentiellement le VajrayĂąna), c’est la nature transformable du poison en remĂšde ou « nectar » ; c’est l’emploi, Ă  des fins de libĂ©ration, des forces mĂȘmes qui ont conduit ou qui peuvent conduire Ă  la chute et Ă  la perdition. Il est prĂ©cisĂ©ment affirmĂ© qu’il faut adopter « le poison comme antidote du poison ». Un autre principe tantrique, c’est que « fruition » et « libĂ©ration » (ou dĂ©tachement, renoncement) ne s’excluent pas nĂ©cessairement, contrairement Ă  ce que pensent les Ă©coles unilatĂ©ralement ascĂ©tiques. On se propose comme but de rĂ©aliser les deux choses Ă  la fois, donc de pouvoir alimenter la passion et le dĂ©sir tout en restant libre. Un texte avait prĂ©cisĂ© qu’il s’agit d’une voie « aussi difficile que le fait de marcher sur le fil de l’épĂ©e ou de tenir en bride un tigre ». (
) De toute façon, Ă  ceux qui penseraient que le tantrisme offre un commode alibi spirituel pour s’abandonner Ă  ses instincts et Ă  ses sens, il faudrait rappeler que tous ces courants supposent une consĂ©cration et une initiation prĂ©liminaires, le rattachement Ă  une communautĂ© ou chaĂźne (kula) d’oĂč tirer une force protectrice, dans tous les cas une ascĂšse sui generis, une disciple Ă©nergique de maĂźtrise de soi chez celui qui entend se livre aux pratiques dont nous allons parler." "MĂ©taphysique du sexe", pp. 303-304
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Julius Evola (Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex)
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Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess who was admired by all, but no one dared to ask for her hand in marriage. In despair, the king consulted the god Apollo. He told him that Psyche should be dressed in mourning and left alone on top of a mountain. Before daybreak, a serpent would come to meet and marry her. The king obeyed, and all night the princess waited for her husband to appear, deathly afraid and freezing cold. Finally, she slept. When she awoke, she found herself crowned a queen in a beautiful palace. Every night her husband came to her and they made love, but he had imposed one condition: Psyche could have all she desired, but she had to trust him completely and could never see his face.” How awful, I think, but I don’t dare interrupt him. “The young woman lived happily for a long time. She had comfort, affection, joy, and she was in love with the man who visited her every night. However, occasionally she was afraid that she was married to a hideous serpent. Early one morning, while her husband slept, she lit a lantern and saw Eros, a man of incredible beauty, lying by her side. The light woke him, and seeing that the woman he loved was unable to fulfill his one request, Eros vanished. Desperate to get her lover back, Psyche submitted to a series of tasks given to her by Aphrodite, Eros’s mother. Needless to say, her mother-in-law was incredibly jealous of Psyche’s beauty and she did everything she could to thwart the couple’s reconciliation. In one of the tasks, Psyche opened a box that makes her fall into a deep sleep.” I grow anxious to find out how the story will end. “Eros was also in love and regretted not having been more lenient toward his wife. He managed to enter the castle and wake her with the tip of his arrow. ‘You nearly died because of your curiosity,’ he told her. ‘You sought security in knowledge and destroyed our relationship.’ But in love, nothing is destroyed forever. Imbued with this conviction, they go to Zeus, the god of gods, and beg that their union never be undone. Zeus passionately pleaded the cause of the lovers with strong arguments and threats until he gained Aphrodite’s support. From that day on, Psyche (our unconscious, but logical, side) and Eros (love) were together forever.” I pour another glass of wine. I rest my head on his shoulder. “Those who cannot accept this, and who always try to find an explanation for magical and mysterious human relationships, will miss the best part of life.
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Paulo Coelho (Adultery)
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Weininger remarque que rien n’est plus dĂ©concertant pour l’homme que le fait de constater, lorsqu’il demande Ă  une femme surprise en train de mentir : « Pourquoi mens-tu ? », que celle-ci ne comprend pas la question, reste Ă©tonnĂ©e ou cherche Ă  le tranquilliser en souriant, ou bien encore Ă©clate en sanglots. Cela signifie que la femme ne saisit pas l’aspect Ă©thique, transcendantal, du mensonge, ce en quoi il reprĂ©sente une lĂ©sion de l’« ĂȘtre » et ce pour quoi il peut constituer, comme le reconnut l’Iran ancien, une faute plus grave encore que le meurtre. DĂ©duire ce trait de la nature fĂ©minine de facteurs sociologiques est une sottise : pour certains, le mensonge aurait Ă©tĂ© l'« arme naturelle » utilisĂ©e par le plus faible, donc aussi par la femme, dans une sociĂ©tĂ© oĂč elle a Ă©tĂ© soumise Ă  l’homme pendant des siĂšcles. La vĂ©ritĂ©, c’est que la femme purement fĂ©minine a tendance Ă  mentir et Ă  se prĂ©senter pour ce qu’elle n’est pas, mĂȘme quand cela ne lui sert de rien ; il ne s’agit pas lĂ  d’une « deuxiĂšme nature » acquise socialement dans la lutte pour l’existence, mais de quelque chose qui est liĂ© Ă  sa nature la plus profonde et la plus typique. De mĂȘme que la femme absolue ne perçoit pas vraiment le mensonge comme une faute — ainsi pour la femme fĂ©minine, contrairement Ă  l’homme, le mensonge n’est pas une faute, n’est pas un flĂ©chissement intĂ©rieur, ni un manquement Ă  sa propre loi existentielle. C’est une contrepartie Ă©ventuelle de sa plasticitĂ© et de sa fluiditĂ©. Aussi bien peut-on comprendre parfaitement un type de femme comme celui dont Barbey d’Aurevilly a dit : « Elle pratiquait le mensonge au point d’en faire une vĂ©ritĂ©, tant elle Ă©tait simple et naturelle, sans effort et sans affectation ». Il est absurde de juger la femme Ă  l’aune des valeurs de l’homme (de l’homme absolu), mĂȘme lorsque, faisant violence Ă  elle-mĂȘme, elle feint de l’imiter et croit mĂȘme sincĂšrement l’imiter.
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Julius Evola (Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex)
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One result of the mysterious nature of love is that no one has ever, to my knowledge, arrived at a truly satisfactory definition of love. In an effort to explain it, therefore, love has been divided into various categories: eros, philia, agape; perfect love and imperfect love, and so on. I am presuming, however, to give a single definition of love, again with the awareness that it is likely to be in some way or ways inadequate. I define love thus: The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.
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M. Scott Peck (The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth)
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Not those who busy themselves with speculations, with social or ‘spiritual’ activities, but only those who raise themselves as high as heroic or ascetic experiences, go further into the beyond.
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Julius Evola (Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex)
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Tout comme sa rĂ©serve, sa « modestie » ou son « innocence », la pudeur de la femme n’est qu’un simple ingrĂ©dient de sa qualitĂ© sexuellement attirante, et l’on peut la ranger parmi les caractĂšres tertiaires de son sexe (cf. § 10). Nous reviendrons du reste sur ce point dans le prochain chapitre. La pudeur masculine, elle, ne prĂ©sente pas d’aspect ou d’usage « fonctionnel ». Parmi les preuves attestant que la pudeur fĂ©minine est un phĂ©nomĂšne sexuel, et non Ă©thique, il y a le fait bien connu que la pudeur envers leur propre nuditĂ© cesse complĂštement chez les femmes dĂšs qu’elles se retrouvent entre elles, et donne mĂȘme lieu au plaisir de l’exhibitionnisme (Ă  moins qu’intervienne quelque complexe d’infĂ©rioritĂ©, dont la crainte d’avoir un corps moins beau et moins dĂ©sirable que les autres). La pudeur masculine, au contraire, ne disparaĂźt pas parce que des hommes sont entre eux (on fait ici abstraction de ce qui caractĂ©rise des civilisations en voie de « primitivisation », ce qui est le cas de la civilisation contemporaine).
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Julius Evola (Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex)
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La fonctionnalitĂ© sexuelle de la pudeur fĂ©minine, l’absence, en elle, d’un caractĂšre Ă©thique et autonome, sont enfin clairement attestĂ©es par le fait, Ă©galement bien connu, qu’une femme affiche d’autant plus de pudeur que l’attention masculine se porte sur tel ou tel aspect de sa nuditĂ©, nuditĂ© qui, toutefois, peut ĂȘtre bien plus limitĂ©e que celle que la mĂȘme femme exhibera publiquement, en d’autres circonstances, sans la moindre retenue. De nos jours, par exemple, la femme aura honte de montrer ses jambes revĂȘtues de bas de soie en relevant sa robe, mais se promĂšnera dans une impudique innocence animale, revĂȘtue d’un costume de bain « deux piĂšces » qui ne couvre que quelques centimĂštres carrĂ©s de son corps. C’est pourquoi l’on a justement soulignĂ© qu’on ne doit pas infĂ©rer le manque de pudeur de l’absence de vĂȘtements, des formes particuliĂšres de pudeur Ă©tant attestĂ©es dans des populations qui vivent nues ou presque ; inversement, on ne doit pas infĂ©rer la prĂ©sence de la pudeur du port de vĂȘtements, le fait de se vĂȘtir n’étant pas du tout une garantie de la prĂ©sence d’une vraie pudeur On sait presque trop bien que, souvent, la femme ne se sert des vĂȘtements que pour produire un effet plus excitant, par allusion aux promesses de sa nuditĂ©. Montaigne a dit qu’« il y a des choses qu’on cache pour mieux les montrer ».
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Julius Evola (Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex)
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On cite souvent les cas de Henri III et de Henri IV de France, qui auraient Ă©tĂ© pris d’une passion subite et irrĂ©sistible pour des femmes dont ĂŒs avaient senti les vĂȘtements intimes ; dans le cas de Henri III, on dit que sa passion, nĂ©e ainsi, pour Marie de QĂšves, Ă  survĂ©cu Ă  la mort tragique de celle-d. Cf. R. von Krafft-Ebing, PsychopaOtia Sexualis, Stuttgart 'Âź, p. 25. Lorsque cet auteur doute (p. 18) que des effets de ce genre liĂ©s aux centres olfactifs puissent se vĂ©rifier « chez des individus normaux », il identifie Ă©videmment les individus normaux Ă  ceux qui ont une sensibilitĂ© « subtile » assez rĂ©duite. Ploss-Baitels (Op. cil., vol. I, p. 467 sq) font allusion Ă  des croyances populaires selon lesquelles l’odeur du corps (nous dirions : de l’ĂȘtre) d’une personne peut avoir un effet intoxicant sur une autre personne, si celle-ci est de sexe opposĂ©.
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Julius Evola (Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex)
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Du reste, lorsqu’interviennent dans ce domaine des prĂ©tentions scientifiques, «sexologiques», les rĂ©sultats, en gĂ©nĂ©ral, font montre d’une incompĂ©tence plutĂŽt grotesque : le prĂ©supposĂ© pour comprendre une expĂ©rience Ă©tant, ici comme ailleurs, de s’y ĂȘtre dĂ©jĂ  correctement livrĂ© soi-mĂȘme. Havelock Ellis a soulignĂ© avec raison que « les femmes qui, trĂšs sĂ©rieusement et trĂšs sincĂšrement, Ă©crivent des livres sur ces problĂšmes (sexuels) sont souvent les derniĂšres auxquelles on devrait s’adresser comme individus reprĂ©sentatifs de leur sexe : celles qui en savent le plus long sont celles qui ont Ă©crit le moins ». Nous irons plus loin : celles qui en savent le plus long sont celles qui n’ont rien Ă©crit du tout, et cela, naturellement, vaut aussi, dans une large mesure, pour les hommes.
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Julius Evola (Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex)
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Chez les Juifs, on allait mĂȘme jusqu’à envisager dans certains cas la peine de mort pour celui qui s’unirait charnellement avec une femme ayant ses rĂšgles ; pour le zoroastrisme, cela constituait un pĂ©chĂ© sans rĂ©mission. On lit dans le code islamique de Sidi Khebil : « Celui qui pour satisfaire son plaisir touche une femme durant les rĂšgles, perd la force et la tranquillitĂ© de l’esprit. »
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Julius Evola (Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex)
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Havelock Ellis a soulignĂ© avec raison que « les femmes qui, trĂšs sĂ©rieusement et trĂšs sincĂšrement, Ă©crivent des livres sur ces problĂšmes (sexuels) sont souvent les derniĂšres auxquelles on devrait s’adresser comme individus reprĂ©sentatifs de leur sexe : celles qui en savent le plus long sont celles qui ont Ă©crit le moins »." Nous irons plus loin : celles qui en savent le plus long sont celles qui n’ont rien Ă©crit du tout, et cela, naturellement, vaut aussi, dans une large mesure, pour les hommes.
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Julius Evola (Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex)
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L.T. Woodward ha anche rilevato giustamente una forma di sadismo psicologico in quelle donne d’oggi che «mettono ben in mostra il proprio corpo ma fornendolo di un simbolico cartello con la scritta “vietato toccare”. Tormentatrici sessuali di questo tipo s’incontrano dovunque: la ragazza che si presenta in bikini ridottissimi, la signora con provocanti scollature, la ragazzina che per la strada cammina ancheggiando in pantaloni aderentissimi o con “minigonne” che lasciano vedere piĂč della metĂ  delle cosce e che desidera essere guardata ma non toccata, e che sono tutte capaci di indignarsi ».
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Julius Evola (Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex)