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FOURTH VRATA.
Sex passion. Maithuna is the Sanskrit word and means the whole sex passion, from the slightest desire to the full act of sexual intercourse. By the full act is meant what is called in physiology 'penetration'. Maithuna can be divided into two kinds (1) sukshma or subtle any little perturbation or excitation of the sex organs through the rise of the passion. (2) sthula, or gross,, that is, intercourse with a woman either mentally, in words, or actually. People express language which means intercourse; and mentally they have intercourse, especially in dreamá,
The exercise of the passion is so net mes spoken of (in Dr. Nicholson's Zoology, for instance) as the act of procreation. This is not accurate naining really, because when exercised it is not exercised as an act of procreation; there is no such motive. This is shown by the fact that means are taken to prevent procreation; and again by the fact that the act is always performed in secret and is acknowledged with shame; and also because if the satisfying of the passion were done only for the production of offspring then the function would not be perforized more than once a year by man
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