No, Therese, no, I will not cease repeating it, there isabsolutely no necessity that, in order to be keen, an enjoymentmust be shared; and in order that this kind of pleasure may berendered piquant to the utmost, it is, on the contrary, veryessential that the man never take his pleasure save at the expenseof the woman, that he take from her (without regard for thesensation she may experience thereby) everything which may in anyway improve or increase the voluptuous exercise he wants to relish,and this without the slightest concern for whatever may be theeffects of all this upon the woman, for preoccupation of that sortwill prove bothersome to him; he either wants the woman to partakeof pleasure, and thereupon his joys are at an end; or he fears lestshe will suffer, and he is hurled into co
