Closing her eyes lets a woman collapse the subject-object divide during sex.

Evidence

This is one of the reasons that the woman often closes her eyes: physiologically there is a reflex that compensates for the dilation of the pupil; but even in the dark she still lowers her eyelids; she wants to do away with the setting, the singularity of the moment, herself and her lover; she wants to lose herself within the carnal night as indistinct as the maternal breast. And even more particularly, she wants to abolish this separation that sets the male in front of her; she wants to merge with him. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1002

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concretizes the fusion/abolition-of-Other mechanism: closing the eyes is how woman tries to escape alterity.