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which are feminine by a male, symbolically endows him with the beauty, desireability and appreciation which he craves. In most cases he is definitely not beautiful, but he can feel himself to be and therein lies the satisfaction. Thus point two.

DESIRE TO JOIN: The complete nature of the attraction the female exerts on the male has not and perhaps can not be described. In lower animals it is often activated the sense of smell particulaly at the time the female is receptive In others it is motivated by some tenuous in- stinctive pattern that tells both sexes that now is the time and here is the place to mate. The fact that many species like salmon, els, geese etc migrate long distances to arrive at a proper mating ground and guide themselves in space and time by means that we cannot yet explain shows that the mating instinct is very real, very strong and very complex.

In the human species however, mating has become a thing of desire and convenience rather than of time and place Copulation is biologically posle at any time ex- cept during an already existing pregnancy in the later phases or during illness. The motivations to do so are largely left up to the male and arise in him from stimu-- lation of thought, eye and bodily pressures.

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Whatever the mechanism of the attraction the male is definitely aware of it. Except in cases of mental disease he cant even avoid feeling it. (Of course homosexuality is a special case in which the need for and attraction by another human has been displaced to one of the same tomical sex--leaving out any discussion of the possible biological causes of the condition.) Now to be impelled toward something generally presupposes some quality of worth in the object. This is culturally born out by the endowment of the female with virtue and goodness as dis- cussed in the previous section If a person or a situa- tion has worth and value it arouses a desire to have, possess, acquire, partake and become part of that worth or value. There is a subtle distinction between acquiring