{Guilt-feelings [continued (3)]}[25th December 1987]

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So far as the comments quoted* from 'The Lust to Kill: A feminist investigation of sexual murder' are concerned, 'the ambivalent feelings evoked by sexuality – pleasure and danger, desire and disgust –' are, according to my observation long ago, felt by women as much as, if not more than, by men. And men do not solely project this onto prostitutes (I am not sure whether the authors imply that they do): in many cases they 'project' it onto any woman who is attainable, too easily or at all. It is the mark of less refined type of man. Not all men** even for a moment consider expressing this in violence: the fact that some Men do, and very few (or no) women do, is presumably an expression of the difference in innate psychological*** structure, ****arising out of difference in natural roles, rather than being due to the structure of our society (which probably arises out of the same cause).

*[Presumably, by Patricia Highsmith, writing in the T[imes] L[iterary] S[upplement] that week on Jack the Ripper: see last previous entry.]

**-- or even many men, I guess –

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