The male’s need to take and satisfy women depends on deeming them worthless

Evidence

One may be perplexed, however, by where this fever to take and to satisfy comes from if the woman taken and satisfied is just a poor thing, some tasteless flesh faintly palpitating with an ersatz consciousness. How can Costals waste so much time with these futile creatures? — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 475

Categorization

• QUESTION: Beauvoir poses the puzzle rhetorically; does she ever resolve WHY the conqueror needs conquest of the worthless — the master’s dependency on the slave?
• SHARE: For a friend interested in masculinities studies — the paradox that men both despise women as ‘futile flesh’ yet feverishly need their satisfaction.
• XREF: connects to: The failure to possess woman drives man into self-alienation. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 355; Male love requires woman as an object who remains unconscious of herself — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 614; The virginal innocence demanded of brides is a social artifact manufactured for male enjoyment. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1278 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Male love requires woman as an object who remains unconscious of herself #expands (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 614