Male sexuality is mediated and individualizing while female sexuality is immediate and species-bound.

Evidence

While sexuality is immediate for the female, it is indirect in the male: he actively bridges the distance between desire and its satisfaction; he moves, seeks, feels the female, caresses her, immobilizes her before penetrating … Hegel is right to see the subjective element in the male while the female remains enclosed in the species. Subjectivity and separateness immediately mean conflict. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 95

Categorization

• XREF: Beauvoir explicitly invokes Hegel here; connects to the reader’s foundational Continental reading project and to Beauvoir’s position against/alongsion Sartre’s for-itself. — connects to: Male sexuality integrates with individual transcendence while female sexuality does not — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 97; Male and female eroticism are experienced as transcendence versus alienated immanence respectively. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 775
• DEFINE: Introduces the key contrast of immediate-vs-indirect sexuality and ‘the species encloses the female’ — core to immanence/transcendence apparatus.

Broader Connections

• Male and female eroticism are experienced as transcendence versus alienated immanence respectively. #expands (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 775