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As Ellis^[1] states, with regard to so-called marriage by capture: "While this is sometimes a real capture, it is more often a mock capture; the lover perhaps pursues the beloved on horseback, but she is as fleet and as skilful as he is, cannot be captured unless she wishes to be captured, and in addition, as among the Kirghiz, she may be armed with a formidable whip; so that 'marriage by capture,' far from being a hardship imposed on women, is largely a concession to their modesty and a gratification of their erotic impulses. Even when the chief part of the decision rests with masculine force, courtship is still not necessarily or usually excluded, for the exhibition of force by a lover—and this is true for civilized as well as for savage women—is itself a source of pleasurable stimulation, and when that is so the essence of courtship may be attained even more successfully by the forceful than by the humble lover."

The Erogenous Zones and Their Significance in Woman's Love-Life. While any one of the five senses may lead to sexual desire, the sense of touch is most definitely associated with it. Furthermore, tactile expressions of affection are particularly in evidence in wooing and in the preliminaries to the sexual act, and the subject is therefore important in the matter under discussion. Professor Bain maintained that this sense is both the alpha and omega of affection.

Those parts of the body which are especially sensitive to sexual feeling, or are definitely connected with sexual pleasure, are called erogenous (love-producing) zones.

In the female, these zones are more numerous and much more diversified than in the male.

In the male, the extremity of the penis—the glans—is the principal seat of voluptuous sensation. This portion of the