The following communication from a correspondent well brings out
the divergences of feeling in this matter:
"You write that the sex organs, in an excited condition, cannot
be called aesthetic. But I believe that they are a source, not
only of curiosity and wonder to many persons, but also objects of
admiration. I happen to know of one man, extremely intellectual
and refined, who delights in lying between his mistress's thighs
and gazing long at the dilated vagina. Also another man, married,
and not intellectual, who always tenderly gazes at his wife's
organs, in a strong light, before intercourse, and kisses her
there and upon the abdomen. The wife, though amative, confessed
to another woman that she could not understand the attraction. On
the other hand, two married men have told me that the sight of
their wives' genital parts would disgust them, and that they have
never seen them.
"If the sexual parts cannot be called aesthetic, they have still a
strong charm for many passionate lovers, of both sexes, though
not often, I believe, among the unimaginative and the uneducated,
who are apt to ridicule the organs or to be repelled by them.
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