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From the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she
is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick to
receive the candle. But man is only briefly competent:...After fifty his
performance is of poor quality; the intervals between are wide, and its
satisfactions of no great quality to either party; whereas his great-grandmother
is as good as new. When Adam ate the apple in the Garden and learned how to multiply and
replenish, the other animals learned the Art, too, by watching Adam. It
was cunning of them, it was neat; for they got all that was worth having
out of the apple without tasting it and afflicting themselves with the
disastrous Moral Sense, the parent of all the immoralities. |
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The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this:
There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually,
at any time of life.
- Letters from the Earth
It is not immoral to create the human species--with or without ceremony.
- Mark Twain, a Biography
Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed
of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could
not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if
he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had
to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted
enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.
- Letters from the Earth
Now if you or any other really intelligent person were arranging the fairnesses
and justices between man and woman, you give the man a one-fiftieth interest
in one woman, and the woman a harem.
- Letters from the Earth
Of all the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse. He
will go any length for it-risk fortune, character, reputation, life itself.
and what do you think he has done? He has left it out of his heaven! Prayer
takes its place.
- Notebook, 1906
...the human being, like the immortals, natually places sexual intercourse far
and away above all other joys--yet he has left it out of his heaven! The very
thought of it excites him; opportunity sets him wild; in this state he will
risk life, reputation, everything--even his queer heaven itself--to make good
that opportunity and ride it to the overwhelming climax. From youth to middle
age all men and all women prize copulation above all other pleasures combined,
yet it actually as I have said: it is not in their heaven; prayer takes its
place.
- Letters from the Earth
At its very best and longest the act is brief beyond imagination--the imagination
of an immortal, I mean. In the matter of repetition the man is limited--oh,
quite beyond immortal conception.
- Letters from the Earth
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