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Dominance and submission have often been used in religious literature in periods when love and devotion were separated from sexuality. They became unified only through religious visions or experiences, for only God’s love was seen as “good enough” to justify a sexuality otherwise felt to be animalistic. Instead, the words “domination” and “submission” have to do with areas of consciousness and its development. Because of interpretations mentioned earlier in this book, you adopted a prominent line of consciousness that to a certain extent was bent upon dominating nature. You considered this male in essence. The female principle then became connected with the earth and all those elements of its life over which you as a species hoped to gain power.

I am not saying here that any given sexual performance is “wrong,” or meaningless, or debased, if it is not accompanied by the sentiments of love and devotion. Over a period of time, however, the expression of sex will follow the inclinations of the heart. These inclinations will color sexual expression, then. To that degree, it is “unnatural” to have sexual desire for someone whom you dislike or look down upon. The sexual ideas of domination and submission have no part in the natural life of your species, or that of the animals. Again, you interpret animal behavior according to your own beliefs.

[...] Nor are these personalities that compose the prime psychic gestalt dependent or submissive to any one dominating personality within the gestalt.

[...] The male is passive and of a submissive mind, and given to an obsession with overconsideration for security. [...]

[...] His intuitive nature will respond easily and enthusiastically when he stops trying to beat it into submission.

[...] Your own ego and consciousness must learn and develop and not be coerced into any kind of submission, for you would resent it, as indeed I would resent and coercion. [...]

You speak, for example, of domination and submission, of the master and the slave, of the rape of a nation — terms used in war and sex alike.

(The book was then finished, and Jane spent part of the next two days typing up the version for submission to publishers. [...]