Male desire is fleeting while women become emotionally bound after love

Evidence

Then the immanence of the instant is transcended; the burning memories are no longer a regret but a treasure; as it dies down, the sensuality becomes hope and promise; sexual pleasure is justified; the woman can gloriously assume her sexuality because she transcends it; arousal, pleasure, and desire are no longer a state but a gift; her body is no longer an object: it is a song, a flame. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1859 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

The day when it will be possible for the woman to love in her strength and not in her weakness, not to escape from herself but to find herself, not out of resignation but to affirm herself, love will become for her as for man the source of life and not a mortal danger. For the time being, love epitomizes in its most moving form the curse that weighs on woman trapped in the feminine universe, the mutilated woman, incapable of being self-sufficient. Innumerable martyrs to love attest to the injustice of a destiny that offers them as ultimate salvation a sterile hell. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1885 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Male transcendence is fleeting while the female is chronically alienated by gestation — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 94; Female desire is experienced as viscous passivity versus male predatory impetuosity.; Female possessive love grows pathologically where sexual satisfaction is absent — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1289 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• A man’s enduring love can transform woman’s sexual submission into transcendence #qualifies (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1859
• Love becomes life-giving only when women love from strength rather than weakness #qualifies (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1885