from Sexual Love and Western Morality: A Philosophical Anthology

"Every society has an image of the masculine and the feminine and the roles that men and women are to play when they are acting in a manner distinctive to their sexual natures. It is through these images and the particular ways in which these roles are acted out that the physical act, itself describable in wholly physiological terms, is dependent upon some playing out of some socially and psychologically defined roles as preliminary to its initiation." - Introduction, page xi, D.P.Verence - Sexual Love and Western Morality: A Philosophical Anthology