The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul.

Aristotle
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The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul. The female is a mutilated male. She was born with a man’s body, but lacking most of his qualities. That’s why she is poorer, more submissive, inferior to men, more easily controlled.

The catamenia are semen. They are not everything that makes up semen. They are not the spirit that animates it.

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