Female sexual arousal involves self-alienation whereas male desire remains localized and self-conscious

Evidence

Feminine arousal can reach an intensity unknown by man. Male desire is violent but localized, and he comes out of it—except perhaps in the instant of ejaculation—conscious of himself; woman, by contrast, undergoes a real alienation; for many, this metamorphosis is the most voluptuous and definitive moment of love; but it also has a magical and frightening side. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 987

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Beauvoir’s core immanence/transcendence apparatus and to Simone Weil’s or Bataille’s ideas of self-loss in erotic experience. — connects to: Male sexuality integrates with individual transcendence while female sexuality does not — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 97; Excrement contests among boys can confer penis-like prestige through objectified alienation; Male love requires woman as an object who remains unconscious of herself — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 614 (+8 more)
• DEFINE: Illustrates what Beauvoir means by feminine ‘alienation’ in erotic experience.

Broader Connections

• Females uniquely experience their own bodies as alienated otherness #expands (0.90) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 110
• Alienation in reproduction paradoxically reveals consciousness-body union for women #corroborates (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 110