There
are also nine kinds of union according to the force of passion or carnal desire,
as follows: a man is called a man of small passion whose desire at the time of
sexual union is not great, whose semen is scanty, and who cannot bear the warm
embrace of the female. Those who
differ from this temperament are called men of middling passion, while those of
intense passion are full of desire. In
the same way, women are supposed to have the degrees of feeling as specified
above.
Lastly,
according to time there are three kinds of men and women, viz. The short-timed,
the moderate-timed, and the long-timed, and of these as in the previous
statements, there are nine kinds of union.
But
on this last head there is a difference of opinion about the female who should
be stated.
Auddalika
says, ‘Females do not emit as males do. The
males simply remove their desire, while the females, from their consciousness of
desire, feel a certain kind of pleasure, which gives them satisfaction, but it
is impossible for them to tell you what kind of pleasure they feel.
The fact from which this becomes evident is that males, when engaged in
coition, cease of themselves after emission, and are satisfied, and the pleasure
derived from the consciousness of it is called their satisfaction.
The
followers of Babhravya, however, say that the semen of women continues to fall
from the beginning of the sexual union to its end, and it is right that it
should be so, for if they had no semen there would be no embryo.
To this there is no objection. In
the beginning of coition the passion of the woman is middling, and she cannot
bear the vigorous thrusts of her lover, but by degrees her passion increases
until she ceases to think about her body, and then finally she wishes to stop
from further coition.