Male sexuality integrates with individual transcendence while female sexuality does not

Evidence

When that happens, the male’s sex life is normally integrated into his individual existence: in terms of desire and coitus, his surpassing toward the species is an integral part of the subjective moment of his transcendence: he is his body. Woman’s history is much more complex. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 97

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the core Beauvoirian distinction: man ‘is his body’ (transcendence integrated with sex) versus woman’s body as alienated from her — the basis of the immanence/transcendence apparatus.
• XREF: Directly sets up the contrast against which the whole book turns; resonates with Sartre’s distinction between being-for-itself and the fleshy body in Being and Nothingness. — connects to: Men’s perspective passes as neutral truth while women’s is read as gendered — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 53; Male transcendence is fleeting while the female is chronically alienated by gestation — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 94; In lower animals only the male gains individual existence — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 92 (+21 more)

Broader Connections

• Male sexuality is mediated and individualizing while female sexuality is immediate and species-bound. #corroborates (0.97) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 95
• Female sexual arousal involves self-alienation whereas male desire remains localized and self-conscious #expands (0.95) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 987