And
always, as youth and beauty went, I believe I should transfer my
love to some one else.
"Now, in woman I fancy this element of beauty and youth does not
enter so much. I have questioned a large number of women--some
married, some unmarried, young and old ladies, shopgirls,
servants, prostitutes, women whom I have known only as friends,
others with whom I have had sexual relations--and I cannot
recollect one instance when a woman said she had fallen in love
with a man for his looks. The nearest approach to any sign of
this was in the instance of one, who noticed a handsome man
sitting near us in a hotel, and said to me: 'I should like him to
kiss me.'
"I have also noticed that women do not like looking at my body,
when naked, as I like looking at theirs. My wife has, on a few
occasions, put her hand over my body, and expressed pleasure at
the feeling of my skin. (I have very fair, soft skin.) But I have
never seen women exhibit the excitement that is caused in me by
the sight of their bodies, which I love to look at, to stroke, to
kiss all over."
It is interesting to point out, in this connection, that the
admiration of strength is not confined to the human female.
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