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THE BIOLOGY OF SEXities belonging to the more fundamentally sexual sense oftouch.In a woman the craving for visual expression of pressureenergy is much more pronounced and predominant thanin a man. It is not difficult to see why this should be so,even without falling back on the usual explanation thatsexual selection implies that the female shall choose themale who will be the most likely father of strong childrenand the best protector of his family. The more energeticpart in physical love belongs to the man, the more passivepart to the woman; so that, while energy in a woman isno index to effectiveness in love, energy in a man furnishesa seeming index to the existence of the primaryquality of energy which a woman demands of a man inthe sexual embrace. It may be a fallacious index, for muscularstrengthis not necessarily correlated with sexualvigor and in its extreme degree appears to be more correlatedwith its absence. But it furnishes "the probability1of passion/ and in any case it still remains a symbol whichcannot be without itseffect. We must not, of course, supposethat these considerations are always or often presentto the consciousness of the maiden who "blushingly turnsfrom Adonis to Hercules/ 'but the emotional attitude isrooted in more or less unerring instincts. In this way ithappensthat even in the field of -visual attraction sexualselection influences women on the underlying basis ofthe more primitive sense of touch, the fundamentally sexualsense.The sexual enjoyment aroused by the spectacle of graceful,skilful, or athletic movement was by Fr6 termedex-ergophily, and in a pronounced degreeit is specially hibited by women, and is distinct from the more morbidpleasure occasionally aroused by scenes of horror andcase of extremecruelty. F6r brought forward a typical[77]