Burning—relentless burning— With the gently caressing fires that will not be calmed. A delicious sense of stifling. Suddenly a fierce storm of sharp, exquisite pains ... Like little electric needle shocks ... Pierces every tiny part of your body— Till you are raised out of this earth. A great calm comes over you then— And you open languorously, luxuriously Like an enormous, fresh passion flower opens its petals to the sun. Something comes and snuggles into its petals like a honey bee And they slowly close again—and then—just nothing then— The sensation of having no sensations—great peace, vast peace—and Nothing, nothing, nothing. —FLORENCE E. VON WIEN. § 97 So far as the woman’s slower progress than man’s toward the climax requires, as much time as possible should be given to each detail of the love episode. It will be shown in the chapter on control[18] that this time, and the opportunity for observation which it gives, is an important factor in the essentially human element of male control. Only its crassest animal form, its acutest gasp, is “brief as the lightning in the collied night.” In the love episode, at the time when contact is deepest and most intense, one sees, if one reasons biologically, that the time that would be chosen by nature for the injection of spermatozoa (of the millions of which only one is to be chosen by chance to be united to the single ovum ordinarily developed each month) is the time when the container which is destined to be the seat of the future life was either most open or most turned toward the source of the spermatozoa. As it is believed that the woman’s erotic acme is either coincident with or associated with this change in shape of the innermost organ, we have here a prototype giving more rationally the pattern for carrying out this phase of the love episode. In other words the wife is to be prepared for an emotional cataclysm on the part of the husband. Just as the organs of any two animals have to come together simultaneously so not only is this apposition necessary in humans, but in them there is a psychical apposition, a rapport of purely spiritual quality needed in order that the real spiritual fusion may take place. § 98