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Havelock Ellis

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

Havelock Ellis

Women

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Men often assume that women do not experience sexual feelings because those feelings do not match the way men feel them in themselves. This means men judge women's emotions by their own standards and mistakenly believe women lack those emotions entirely.

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