Love's coming of age : a series of papers on the relations of the sexes.

  • Edward Carpenter
Date:
1915
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Credit: Love's coming of age : a series of papers on the relations of the sexes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Man THE UNGROWN MAN, the ordinary human male, is a curious animal. While mastering the world with his pluck, skill, enterprise, he is in matters of Love for the most part a child. The passion plays havoc with him; nor does he ride the Leopard, as Ariadne is fabled to have done. In this he differs from the other sex; and the difference can be seen in earliest years. When the boy is on his rocking horse, the girl is caressing her doll. When the adolescent youth, burning to master a real quadruped, is still somewhat con¬ temptuous of Love’s power, “ sweet seventeen has already lost and regained her heart several times, and is accomplished in all the finesse of feeling. To the grown man love remains little more than a plaything. Affairs, politics, fighting, money¬ making, creative art, constructive industry, are his serious business; the affections are his relaxation; passion is the little fire with which he toys, and
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