"Whenever I see or hear the word 'dreadful'

I think wonderful,"
wrote Elias Khoury in White Masks.

Expiring during intimate congress
might be a beautiful death for a man,
but not so wonderful for a woman still living.

Ovid wrote that a man can be Truly Himself only in a Bedroom.
He was a free male, and was not considering mere women or slaves.

"I'd discovered a long time ago that 'the particulars' of a woman are only discovered during sex..." wrote Roberto Costantini in The Deliverance of Evil.
I have discovered that it is 'during sex' that you will find out the paucity and meanness of a man,
who may well be revealing a part of his True Self - but still only a part,
for "sex" itself is only a very small part of our lives and our activity,
however much we may fixate upon it.