The Scented Garden

26 nearly all forms of coprophilia : and so on. (These latter forms are so symbolic that sense of sex is a minor matter.) A man can afford to a man two pleasures which a woman cannot give him : namely : (1) passive sodomy. (pleasure of the pathic) (2) irrumation. (pleasure of the fellator)7 The latter is a small matter, and we are justified in concluding that as far as gross gratifications go, the advantage, substantial though slight, rests with the woman. The supreme pleasures are common to both, except cunnilingism (especially during the monthly courses) on the one side, and passive sodomy on the other. Both are pleasures of a somewhat masochistic order, and if we had definitely to choose, it would be hard. Glory to the Creator whose bounty has not forced us to this al- ternative ; aye ! blessed for ever be His holy name, and thanksgiving in the highest for His loving- kindness towards the Children of Men ! Why then do we so dearly cherish the passion of man and man, since of the liberty, do we pursue the shy kisses of silly English boys, often of the lower classes,8 when every type of woman (from the moustachioed and muscular belly-dancer from Spain, with a constrictor cunni developed till the penis issues aching and bruised from her danger- ous defile, to the soft and rosy maiden of our own dear land, with slender limbs and velvet flesh, whose pleasance is like a single slim petal of hya- cinth) is at our disposal for sums ranging from half-a-crown to fifty guineas ? To ask the question is to acknowledge that one is still no better than the brutes ; and to answer it is (consequently) to attempt to teach a dog dog- Latin ! O man ! how can I hold talk with thee, who hast not lain upon a bed, expectant, fearful, of thou knowst not what ; tremulous ; stammering foolish