Women themselves have actively asserted them, and they are all in process of realisation.

The erotic claims of women, which are at least as fundamental, are not publicly voiced, and women themselves would be the last to assert them.

It is easy to understand why that should be so.

The natural and acquired qualities of women, even the qualities developed in the art of courtship, have all been utilised in building up the masculine ideal of sexual morality; it is on feminine characteristics that this masculine ideal has been based, so that women have been helpless to protest against it.

Moreover, even if that were not so, to formulate such rights is to raise the question whether there so much as exists anything that can be called "erotic rights." The right to joy cannot be claimed in the same way as one claims the right to put a voting paper in a ballot box.